ATTN: Bill Campbell - Attachment Stripping? (was: Re: OT: Employment opportunity)

[Jay R. Ashworth]

On Thu, Mar 30, 2006 at 04:44:17PM -0500, Fairlight wrote:
> Only Jay Ashworth would say something like:
> > You are *not* looking forward to writing a general MIME parser.
> > 
> > Really.
> > 
> > You're not.  Take my word for this.  :-)

Yup; you're right.  Most other people wouldn't say it like that.

> No, I wouldn't have to.  MIME::Tools includes MIME::Parser, which I was
> already reading up on.  Doesn't look -too- complicated to use.  I'd have
> just spit out the message with the relevant parts scrubbed, a note saying
> so, and changed the content type for the container.  That was the plan,
> anyway.

Oh, yeah.

> Yeah, I know I wouldn't want to write the parser.  Already knew that.  :)
> Hell, I didn't even like the idea of tracing the object stack to make sure
> where I was in the message objects that stem from MIME::Parser.  But I
> would have done that much.  :)

/me chuckles.

Cheers,
-- jra
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