Why can’t things be simple? The basic premise of FreshPorts is parse, an email, put it in the database. Sounds simple? Well, it is. Until you start dealing with the exceptions. Such as slave ports. Such as UTF-8…. I only just got used to dealing with base64-encoded messages when a real UTF-8 character shows up. […]
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I think I have a solution for base64 emails. I emailed Matthew Seaman on Wednesday about this issue. He put me onto two very useful Perl modules: Email::MIME mail/p5-Email-MIME Email::Simple mail/p5-Email-Simple/ Email::Simple::Header The solution is coded below: sub myGetMessage { my ($message); my ($encoding); while () { $message .= $_; } $encoding = myGetMessage_ContentTransferEncoding($message); print
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I have to say, FreshPorts would be a very simple piece of code if it wasn’t for all the exceptions to the rules. But then, that is true for most software. Case in point, I’ve seen three base64 encoded emails in the past week or so. Each one makes FreshPorts barf. It has no idea
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