MIME::Tools has become an important component in a number of antivirus scanners and the like in mail gateways. In this sort of usage, you can't assume well formed MIME input. Some viruses deliberately mess with the MIME formatting in order to evade detection. IF you're dealing with messages you can reasonably expect not to be maliciously constructed, there should be no problem.

For more information on the problems, see

http://www.securiteam.com/unixfocus/5JP041F7FA.html

The Current release version of MIME::Tools (5.411a) hasn't been updated since 2001, and the author is advertising that he's looking for someone else to take over MIME::Tools and MIME::Lite. The makers of MIME::Defang have been releasing their own version. You can get it at

http://www.mimedefang.org/node.php?id=1

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.