Re: Parsing mail messages

I think you're reading the benchmarks backwards -- Mail::Internet is about 100 times faster than Mime::Parser. Look at the rate column.

For most tasks involving incoming emails "from the wild", I use Mail::Box (along with Mail::Box::Parser::C). It generally is not be the fastest, but it's designed to be very robust against the kinds of pathologically formatted emails that spammers send.

-xdg

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Re^2: Parsing mail messages by Krambambuli (Curate) on Feb 19, 2007 at 09:12 UTC
Oops... I've definitely read it heads down. So Mail::Internet seems to rule, no big surprize. I'm dealing with registration forms coming from a bunch of different, but known sources/sites, so the messages are simple and not expected to contain anything weird. Many thanks!	[reply]