current MIME-Tools?

[David Lee]

On Mon, 15 Mar 2004, Peter Bonivart wrote:

> John Rudd wrote:
> > Have the bugfixes/patches listed on the mailscanner installation guide
> > been incorporated into the latest MIME-Tools distribution yet?  It would
> > be nice to be able to just do CPAN installs of all of the packages now
> > ... except mailscanner is still recommending that the standard
> > MIME-Tools not be used.
>
> I seem to remember that Julian has contacted the author several times to
> no avail. But you can get an already patched copy here:
>
> http://www.sng.ecs.soton.ac.uk/mailscanner/install/perl.shtml
>
> Many have reported having problems patching MIME-Tools (or having
> problems due to not patching MIME-Tools).

A few months ago, both Julian and I were in contact with the author (a
three-way email discussion).  From that, we understand that the author
would be willing for someone else to adopt it.

My guess is that the work to adopt it would involve a fairly steep
learning curve, and that there could be significant maintenance as new
"features" in various behaviours/interpretations of MIME become known (and
potentially exploitable).  So the task may not be trivial, but could be a
stimulating challenge to the right person.

My personal view is that someone (or a small group) from the MailScanner
user-base would be an appropriate new custodian of MIME-Tools.  (If anyone
is seriously interested, I'd be happy to let them see those discussions
from that time.)

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