A week of tiny cuts

dws on 2003-10-01T15:05:54

This has been "fun with email" week, starting with the problem that lead to the discovery that

  my $msg = new MIME::Lite(
      From => "Dave Smith ",
      ...

and

  my $msg = new MIME::Lite(
      From => "dws\@postcognitive.com",
      ...

produce significantly different email envelopes and headers, and that certain ISPs would filter out the former while letting the latter pass. (An archeological dig into MIME::Lite is on the short list for this week.) (Update: It was an old version of MIME::Lite.)

Then, one of my trusty procmail rules,

   :0
   * ^Content-type:.*html
   Mail/htmlspam

which has faithfully trapped 12,561 HTML-only spams this year, finally serves up a false-positive. And it's a message about scheduling a job interview.

Then, last night, one of my domains gets joe-jobbed, and AOL spits back a handful of bounces before declaring me a spammer.

This week, I think I'll send a real, physical, ink-on-paper letter. It's been a while.

---

tried a few experiments:

WebDragon on 2003-10-02T14:09:24

This:

perl -MMIME::Lite -le '$msg = MIME::Lite->new( From => "Scott Godin <sgodin\@blah.com>", Subject => "Testing...", Data => "Blah some message this is");  $msg->attach(Type => "TEXT", Data => "Heres your message"); $msg->print(\*STDOUT)'

produces no statistically different output that I can see, from this:

perl -MMIME::Lite -le '$msg = MIME::Lite->new( From => "sgodin\@blah.com", Subject => "Testing...", Data => "Blah some message this is");  $msg->attach(Type => "TEXT", Data => "Heres your message"); $msg->print(\*STDOUT)'

bash:
pv () { perl -M$1 -le "print q{$1}->VERSION";}

tcsh:
$ alias pv 'perl -M\!* -le "print q{\!*}->VERSION"'

$ pv MIME::Lite
3.01

Same Version?

Re:tried a few experiments:

dws on 2003-10-02T16:23:52

Ah. My ISP has MIME::Lite 2.117. Time to prod them for an upgrade.

Re:tried a few experiments:

WebDragon on 2003-10-02T19:33:41

either that, or install it locally in ~/perl :-)