On Mon, 1 Mar 2004, Dirk Mueller wrote: > It seems in the long run we have to get rid of MIMEDefang. Thats a shame, > since it worked so great in all other aspects.
Sorry, but comments like that make me upset. If you don't like the way MIMEDefang parses MIME messages, then submit patches to the maintainers of MIME::tools and Mail::Tools. And keep submitting as the malformed-MIME-of-the-day problem is revealed. Or better yet, make MIMEDefang unnecessary by getting rid of insecure desktop software. Here's an analogy: Suppose a programmer wrote a calculator program that worked fine, except that for the specific case of "2 + 2", it responded "5". One way to fix it would be to write a wrapper program that looks for the key sequence "2", "+", "2", "=" and if detected, replaced the display register with "4" instead of "5". Another way would be to fix the code properly so it always worked. Patching MIME::tools to "handle" malformed MIME is the first programmer's approach. Getting rid of Outlook and Windows is the second programmer's approach. Canonicalizing the e-mail is a sort of compromise position. Which do you suppose I advocate as the long-term solution? :-) Regards, David. _______________________________________________ Visit http://www.mimedefang.org and http://www.canit.ca MIMEDefang mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://lists.roaringpenguin.com/mailman/listinfo/mimedefang
