| Subject: | MIME::Tools |
Simply a wishlist item.
After testing approximately 70,000 email messages of a variety of formats, including 9,000 spam (I consider these to be my toughest formats) I found that use of MIME::Tools was more reliable than the current EMail::MIME (based on Encoding.pm) set of modules in parsing email messages correctly without throwing errors.
After making some of my own patches on Email::MIME::Modifier.pm
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I was able to get most messages decoded correctly but got stuck on decoding the text of various mail header subject lines.
MIME::Tools is ~10 years old and still actively maintained.
My WishList item is that Email::MIME be realigned with the MIME::Tools architecture because of it's robust performance. After working with these tools I believe that this will give Email::MIME a solid foundation from which to build upon.