Word reliable in my question mean: * defect free * comply to all email format related RFC

To me, reliable means that it deals well with emails that don't follow the RFCs. I have found Mail::Box to be the best at dealing with whatever the internet throws at it. Yes, it's a complex OO beast, but it's been around for years and it's been battle tested.

"Defect free" is a meaningless phrase to me and it's unrealistic in any complex piece of software -- which I would consider any email parser to be. How would you confirm it anyway? Create a test set of emails and see if each parser can deal with it.

If you really want to do a code review, Mail::Box::Parser, Mail::Box::Parser::Perl and Mail::Box::Parser::C are all fairly self-evident -- you don't really need to understand all the OO code to examine the parsers.

-xdg

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In reply to Re: Reliable email parsing by xdg
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