MIME::tools failed

[Rob Shepherd]

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Trying to install the patched version of MIME-tools-5.411 from

http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/files/modules/MIME-tools-5.411-patched.tar.gz

on Solaris 9, perl 5.8.2

Some Misc tests fail.

the following is the contents of testout/Misc.tlog

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1..7

1: bug 971008-MWN: are MIME attributes parsed ok?
1:   A: "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"
1:   B: "application/vnd.ms-powerpoint"
1: ok 1

2: bug 970822-AL: Mail::Field register problem (paramstr)
2:   A: "text/HTML"
2:   B: "text/HTML"
2: ok 2

3: bug 970822-AL: Mail::Field register problem (type)
3:   A: "text/html"
3:   B: "text/html"
3: ok 3

4: bug 970725-DNA: QP use of RFC2049 guideline 8
4:   A: "=46rom me=\n"
4:   B: "=46rom me"
4: not ok 4

5: bug 970725-DNA: QP use of RFC2049 guideline 8
5:   A: ".=\n"
5:   B: "=2E"
5: not ok 5

6: bug 970725-DNA: QP use of RFC2049 guideline 8
6:   A: " From you=\n"
6:   B: " From you"
6: not ok 6

7: bug 970626-TS: header get_all() case problem fixed?
7:   A: "4"
7:   B: "4"
7: ok 7

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As you can see some minor errors. Does anybody know what is wrong?

I am no perl expert.

Many thanks

Rob


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