Mail body munging: state of the art?

[Andy Armstrong]

On 18 Jan 2006, at 13:02, paddy wrote:
> perl?  ;)

Hope so :)

I'm looking at Email::MIME::Modifier just now. I suppose I was  
looking for feedback as to any problems I might encounter with it -  
but I didn't want to constrain people's answers if there's something  
else I should investigate.

> FWIW, a recent MailScanner shipped with:
>
> Archive-Zip-1.14.tar.gz
> Compress-Zlib-1.34.tar.gz
> Convert-BinHex-1.119.tar.gz
> Convert-TNEF-0.17.tar.gz
> ExtUtils-MakeMaker-6.30.tar.gz
> File-Spec-0.82.tar.gz
> File-Temp-0.16.tar.gz
> HTML-Parser-3.45.tar.gz
> HTML-Tagset-3.03.tar.gz
> IO-stringy-2.108.tar.gz
> MIME-Base64-3.05.tar.gz
> MIME-tools-5.417.tar.gz
> MailScanner-4.49.7-1.tar.gz
> MailTools-1.50.tar.gz
> Net-CIDR-0.10.tar.gz
> TimeDate-1.1301.tar.gz
> tnef-1.3.4.tar.gz

Ouch! :)

> and debian sarge lists the depends as
>
> Depends: exim4 | mail-transport-agent, spamassassin (>= 2.11), unzip,
>  ncftp | wget, ucf (>= 1.08), perl (>= 5.8.4),libarchive-zip-perl  
> (>= 1.14),
>  libconvert-tnef-perl, libhtml-parser-perl, libmime-perl (>= 5.414),
>  libnet-cidr-perl, libcompress-zlib-perl (>= 1.33), libconvert- 
> binhex-perl
>
> How will this interact with stuff like pgp signed mail ...
> can you add your annotations outside the signature ?

That's a whole kettle of snakes I haven't even thought about yet.

-- 
Andy Armstrong, hexten.net