Re^2: Reliable email parsing

Dealing with emails which don't follow RFC also required, of course. Here is good info about such emails: http://cr.yp.to/immhf.html.

But when I say "RFC compliant" I mean support for all possible formats for email addresses, comments in email headers and all things like locale/language/encoding-specific, for example:

Content-Disposition: attachment;
           filename*0*=koi8-r'ru'%F0%D2%C9%D7%C5%D4
           filename*1*=%20from
           filename*2=" russia.txt"
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And about 'defect free'. There enough information on this topic now. Good example of it is DJB software and most basic&simple *NIX utils. I'm sure: more code == more bugs, so I always prefer smaller/simpler solutions.

I'm sure solution compliant to all these RFC can be coded under ~1000-1500 lines of code (I've partially done it already).

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Re^3: Reliable email parsing by adamk (Chaplain) on Sep 14, 2006 at 02:59 UTC
> I'm sure solution compliant to all these RFC can be coded under ~1000-1500 lines of code (I've partially done it already). Not to be rude, but often a large portion of code complexity comes from the last bits and pieces, that get left till last because they are hard to implement. So to sum up the apparent answers. No, there isn't yet something that does what you want. Email:: should be close. I'm sure they'd appreciate your code to help finish off the set of Email:: module.	[reply]
Re^3: Reliable email parsing by DrHyde (Prior) on Sep 14, 2006 at 10:00 UTC
Good example of it is DJB software OK, now I know you're trolling.	[reply]