On Tue, 8 Feb 2011 16:00:11 +0100 (CET)
Steffen Kaiser <[email protected]> wrote:

> Maybe it was the rfc2231 encoding. In this case you would need to
> recode it into a rfc2047 compliant string, IMHO. So one wouldn't need
> Encode in MIME::Tools.

That's exactly the strategy in my patch.

> Couldn't you drop the use of MIME::WordDecoder in Filer, too, and use 
> anonymous filenames? Unless I am mistaken, only the deprecated
> decode() function would use MIME::WordDecoder then.

I think that's a good idea.  I see no value in obeying the "filename=xxx"
parameter.  We should generate safe filenames and the caller can (if desired)
rename the file afterwards.

[...]

> In conjuntion with a general purpose function, e.g. unmime() or 
> Encode::MIME::Header::decode(), to decode a MIME string into a perl 
> string.

> Maybe, this is exactly what you've answered on Sat Feb 05 10:22:28
> 2011.

Indeed!  Good, so at least 3 of us are on the same page.

Regards,

David.
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