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Re: 'mailread' considered dangerous ?
Alex LeDonne
3/1/2006 6:11:00 PM
Looks like this has recently been discussed on ruby-core...
start of thread
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby...
mention of dropping headers which may appear multiple times
http://blade.nagaokaut.ac.jp/cgi-bin/scat.rb/ruby/ruby...
I don't see that anything has been committed to CVS since... though I
could be wrong.
-A
On 2/24/06, Martin S. Weber <Ephaeton@gmx.net> wrote:
> Hoi rubyists,
>
> just wanted to state my opinion about mailreader. Imo it's freaking dangerous
> to include something in the core distribution which doesn't get emails right :)
>
> It might be amusing to parse and look some at your emails, but if you want
> to seriously work with them, you can't just use it. Neither is there any order
> of headers preserved (as is not required but asked for by rfc2822), nor is
> the storage of headers in a hash appropriate (you can have multiple headers
> with the same key and you shouldn't be losing them). There's probably more
> serious problems in there.
>
> I'm aware this package is a 'basic' mail parsing capability, yet even though
> it's 'basic' it should be *correct*! Next thing included is an Integer class
> whose '+' method works ok if the number is even but does a '-' when the number
> is odd ? (grmbl) *goes off junking half of his code to test rubymail now*
>
> Thanks for listening.
>
> -Martin
>
>
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