MIME::Lite question

cajun has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I'm having a problem with MIME::Lite that I'm not quite sure what is happening. I'm trying to achieve this in the header of the message (sent from Thunderbird):

Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed
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According to the documentation, to do this I should do something like this:

sub send_message{
    $msg = MIME::Lite->new( 
                From     => 'someone@somewhere.com',
                BCc      => "$_",
                Subject  => 'Subject',
                Encoding => '7bit',
                Type     => 'text/plain',
                Data     => "$message"
                );
$msg->attr("content-type"         => "text/plain");
$msg->attr("content-type.charset" => "ISO-8859-1");
$msg->attr("content-type.name"    => "flowed");

$msg->send;
}
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When I do the above, what I get in the message header is:

Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; name="flowed"
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Note the quotes around ISO-8859-1 and flowed. Am I misunderstanding the documentation?

Thanks for any enlightenment,
Mike

Update: Thanks GrandFather Great find!

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Re: MIME::Lite question by GrandFather (Saint) on Jul 15, 2005 at 00:33 UTC
RFC 2045 seems to imply the quotes are ok by giving examples both with and without quotes. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]
Re: MIME::Lite question by pg (Canon) on Jul 15, 2005 at 01:43 UTC
No worry! In the parameter list, the quotation marks in a quoted-string are not a part of the value of the parameter, so in your case, what you expected and what you got are equivalent. The receiving agent should be able to process with no problem.	[reply]
Re: MIME::Lite question by polettix (Vicar) on Jul 15, 2005 at 07:56 UTC
Desired: `Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed` [download] Obtained: `Content-Type: text/plain; charset="ISO-8859-1"; name="flowed"` [download] Unless there's a typo somewhere, it seems that you would like to set attribute `content-type.format`, but you're setting `content-type.name`: `# ... $msg->attr("content-type.name" => "flowed"); #...` [download] Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: MIME::Lite question by cajun (Chaplain) on Jul 15, 2005 at 08:17 UTC
I tried it both ways polettix. It didn't seem to make a lot of difference either way.	[reply]
Re^3: MIME::Lite question by polettix (Vicar) on Jul 15, 2005 at 08:42 UTC
This does not surprise me, but they're different things. Name is usually related to a deprecated way to suggest a filename for attachments (this should be handled by Content-Disposition now), while the other is more text e-mail specific and deals with how nested replies should be displayed in variable-size windows - see here. So the question is: do you really need any of them? Flavio perl -ple'$_=reverse' <<<ti.xittelop@oivalf Don't fool yourself.	[reply]