On Fri, 2002-05-03 at 00:41, Craig R Hughes wrote:
> Daniel Pittman wrote:
> 
> DP> Also, will it handle a MIME part separator such as...
> DP>
> DP> --terrorist-Marxist-counter-intelligence-security-PLO-arrangements
> DP>
> DP> ...a separator that I know has caused some email parsing tools to fail
> DP> and die in the past. Oh, and spaces in MIME breaks?
> DP>
> DP> Not that MIME-tools necessarily are better, mind you, it's more that I
> DP> have seen Gnus (my mail reader) go through the world of obscure MIME
> DP> breakage when trying to parse mime correctly. :)
> 
> I think the MIME::* packages have the million eyeball advantage that makes it a
> lot more likely they're able to handle a Gnus-like array of MIME breakage.
> Probably something short of that, but likely better than less-widely
> distributed/used/aged packages.

They also have the disadvantage of parsing to RAM. And they also don't
decode to UTF-8, meaning you could bypass SpamAssassin by sending the
email in UTF-7.

I'm going run it through our live email feed to see how it fares anyway.

Matt.


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