5.512 2024-01-08 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.512 RELEASED
* Use much larger chunk sizes for Base-64 encoding which reduces
both encoding time and space overhead.
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=128400
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=130110
5.511 2024-01-02 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.511 RELEASED
* Silence a warning if used with a development version of
MIME::QuotedPrint
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=150118
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=149225
5.510 2022-07-06 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.510 RELEASED
* Update author contact info
* Make code work in taint mode
* Clarify MIME::Entity documentation
5.509 2017-04-05 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.509 RELEASED
* Fix CPAN bug https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=120871
Makefile.PL fails with no '.' in @INC
* Fix CPAN bug https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=118262
Test t/Ref.t fails on Windows install
* Fix CPAN bug https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119166
MIME::Parser::parse_data() should check what it gets back...
* Fix CPAN bug https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=119568
Allow \r\n to be used as line-end delimeter when outputting MIME
message.
5.508 2016-08-29 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.508 RELEASED
* Fix test broken by Perl update
https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=113887
5.507 2015-09-30 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.507 RELEASED
* Fix parsing bug
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=105455
* Fix typo that broke MIME::Body::incore->open() on Perl 5.20
5.506 2015-04-22 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.506 RELEASED
* Update maintainer's name to "Dianne Skoll"
5.505 2013-11-14 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.505 RELEASED
* Fix documentation typos.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80473
* Fix broken test.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=84668
* Don't run Kwalitee tests unless author or release tests are enabled.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=87094
* Fix many documentation typos.
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=87783
* Fix bug in header parsing that would fail to parse a header like:
Content-Type: ; name="malware.zip"
5.504 2013-01-30 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.504 RELEASED
* Fix encoding of MIME parameters that contain a quoted
string: "like \"this"
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80433
* Suppress useless warnings from tests
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=80679
* Fix long-standing bug in encode_mimewords that can
break multibyte-encodings (eg, utf-8)
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=5462
5.503 2012-06-08 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.503 RELEASED
* Avoid inappropriately untainting data
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=67119
* Localise $\ to avoid parsing problems if it's set elsewhere
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=71041
* Improve exorcising of filenames
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=71677
* Fix potential race condition in t/Smtpsend.t
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=68879
* Allow native I/O on File::Handle objects
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72538
* Add "recommends Convert::BinHex" clause to Makefile.PL
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=72223
* Add module_name to Makefile.PL
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77138
* Fix "Uninitialized value" warning
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77190
* Don't run t/Smtpsend.t on systems that lack fork()
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77351
* Add "use strict" everywhere
https://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=77582
5.502 2011-03-08 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.502 RELEASED
* NOTE to packagers (Debian, Red Hat, FreeBSD, etc.): Do not ship
MIME::tools 5.500 or 5.501. They both had serious bugs!
* Fix parsing bug: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66025
* Fix typo: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=65387
* Fix unit tests on Perl 5.8.x: https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66188
* Fix unit test failure on Win32: (https://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=66286)
5.501 2011-02-17 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.501 RELEASED
* Add build_requires 'Test::Deep'; to Makefile (rt.cpan.org #64659)
* Fix spelling errors (rt.cpan.org #64610)
* Fix double-decoding bug when decoding RFC-2231-encoded parameters
(rt.cpan.org #65162)
* Fix inappropriate inclusion of CR characters in parsed headers
(rt.cpan.org #65681)
* Document that MIME::WordDecoder is mostly deprecated.
* Document that MIME::Head->get(...) can include a trailing newline.
* Increase buffer size from 2kB to 8kB in MIME::Entity and MIME::Body
(part of rt.cpan.org #65162)
5.500 2011-01-07 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.500 RELEASED
* (cleanup) IO-Stringy (specifically, IO::ScalarArray, IO::Lines, and
IO::InnerFile) is no longer used
* (ticket 22684) Fix deadlock in filter() when invoking external
programs such as gzip. (Alexey Tourbin <at -at- altlinux.ru>)
* Remove auto_install from Makefile.PL
* (ticket 60931) If preamble is empty, make sure it's still empty after roundtripping through MIME::Entity
* (ticket 63739) Properly decude RFC2231 encodings in attachment filenames
5.428 2010-04-22 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.428 RELEASED
* (ticket 56764) Build release with a newer Module::Install
* (ticket 52924) ensure we add <> around Content-id data
* (ticket 48036) make mimesend example script a bit more useful
(courtesy of Jerrad Pierce)
* (ticket 43439) fix for parsing of doubled ; in multipart headers
* (ticket 41632) If both RFC-2231 and non-RFC-2231 parameters are
present, use only the RFC-2231 ones
* (ticket 40715) Reference Encode::MIME::Header in docs
* (ticket 39985) correct POD typos
* Only bind to localhost in smtpsend test, rather than to all available
interfaces. This might avoid some of the test failures seen on
cpantesters.
5.427 2008-06-30 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.427 RELEASED
* (bugfix) fix remove_sig() on invalid multipart message (RT #11901)
* (bugfix) make_singlepart() no longer creates bizzare Content-Type: headers
(RT #37139)
* (bugfix) process_part() no longer sets incorrect charset on empty
parts (RT #35369)
* (bugfix) fix runtime warnings caused by incorrect pack() string
(RT #34451, bugs.debian.org #446342)
* (docs) add "SEE ALSO" sections to POD docs (RT #30391)
* (docs) fix documentation of MIME::Head::get() (RT #34552,
bugs.debian.org #235189)
* (packaging) Depend on IO::File 1.1.3, for its binmode() support (RT #34178)
5.426 2008-03-07 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.426 RELEASED
* (bugfix) require File::Temp 0.18 or newer, as we need seek()
(RT#31032)
* (bugfix) Don't hang forever in t/Smtpsend.t (RT#31082)
* (bugfix) require Perl 5.8.0 or newer in Makefile.PL (RT#30927)
* (bugfix) encode_mimewords() no longer removes spaces between two
encoded words (RT#5462)
5.425 2007-11-17 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.425 RELEASED
* (bugfix) A stub for MIME::Parser's tmp_recycling() method has been
re-added to preserve compatibility. Since recycling of tempfiles
never worked and has been removed, any code calling tmp_recycling()
should stop attempting to use the feature.
5.424 2007-11-07 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.424 RELEASED
* (bugfix) [rt.cpan.org #29864] - lines in $entity->body() should be
newline-terminated.
5.423 2007-09-27 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.423 RELEASED
* (bugfix) Fix API regression - MIME::Entity::body() should return an
arrayref. Fixes RT 29643.
5.422 2007-09-25 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.422 RELEASED
* (bugfix) Require File::Temp 0.17 or newer for IO::Seekable support.
This fixes test failures seen on Darwin.
* (bugfix) Clear filer's purgeable() before calling init_parse(). Fixes RT 7858.
5.421 2007-09-21 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.421 RELEASED
* (enhancement) Use File::Temp for tempfile generation. MIME::Parser
now has a tmp_dir() method for changing the temporary directory on a
per-parser basis.
5.420_02 2007-08-29 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.420_02 (developer release)
* (bugfix) Correct 'use vars' and add a 'use strict' (fixes RT #22681)
* (bugfix) Don't allow all-whitespace filenames in
recommended_filename() (fixes RT #6115)
* (bugfix) Require IO-stringy 2.110. Fixes RT tickets 11312, 11452,
12375, 12784, and 18791
* (docs) Updated RFC references to refer to MIME RFCs 2045-2049 (RT #14119)
* (cleanup) Warn if no decoder is found for a given encoding. (RT #22682)
* (cleanup) IO::Wrap no longer used, IO::ScalarArray use minimized
5.420_01 2007-06-18 Dave O'Neill <dmo@roaringpenguin.com>
* VERSION 5.420_01 (developer release)
* (bugfix) Fix warning generated by a header of "Content-Type: /".
Previous versions would warn about undefined variables. We now
set a blank type and subtype.
* (cleanup) Partial removal of dependencies on IO::Scalar and
IO::ScalarArray. We now use Perl's built-in I/O on scalars as much
as possible. NOTE THAT THIS REQUIRES PERL 5.8!
* (cleanup) FileHandle usage removed in favour of IO::File
* (cleanup) Remove broken utility methods -- shellquote() because it
didn't really make anything safe, and catfile(), because File::Spec
is better.
* (cleanup) Multiple test cleanups, including removal of
ExtUtils/TBone.pm. Tests now use Test::More.
* (cleanup) Remove support for recycling tempfiles ( tmp_recycling() and
its usage in new_tmpfile() )
* (cleanup) Remove nasty "eval join('',<::DATA>) unless caller()"
testing code from various modules
* (cleanup) Merge all changelog information from README and
MIME/Tools.pm into ChangeLog
5.420 2006-03-17 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.420 RELEASED
* Fix regression introduced in 5.419 -- quoted-printable
encoding would sometimes fail on "textual" MIME parts.
5.419 2005-12-22 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.419 RELEASED
* Added MIME::Parser->decode_bodies method. This lets you force
MIME::Tools to store body parts WITHOUT decoding them. Useful
if you need the exact unmangled message source (for example,
for GPG-signing.) Patch submitted by Jörn Reder.
5.418 2005-09-29 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.418 RELEASED
* MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm: Localize "$_" in a couple of places.
* MIME/WordDecoder.pm: Turn off useless debugging output to STDERR
* MIME/Entity.pm: Make the stringify method use IO::ScalarArray
instead of IO::Scalar. For small messages, performance may be
worse; for large messages, it is definitely much better.
* MANIFEST: Remove some useless internal files from the manifest.
They were never meant to be part of the actual distribution.
5.417 2005-01-20 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.417 RELEASED
* Require MIME::QuotedPrint 3.03 to use the three-argument
"encode_qp" function. If we have an earlier version of
MIME::QuotedPrint, fall back to the one-argument version.
* Field/ParamVal.pm: The patch to strip trailing whitespace on
parameters was buggy and caused decoding errors. This has been
fixed.
5.416 2005-01-03 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.416 RELEASED
* Allow MIME::Tools to work with MIME::QuotedPrint 2.20 again.
The Makefile.PL will warn about potential problems, but will allow you
to proceed.
* Field/ParamVal.pm: Strip trailing whitespace when extracting
parameters. Apparently, not doing so can cause Perl to core dump
on certain badly-formed messages.
5.415 2004-10-27 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.415 RELEASED
* Fixed parsing of parameter="" in headers, and fixed case where
multipart boundary is ""
5.414 2004-10-06 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.414 RELEASED
* Remove MIME::QuotedPrint 3.03 as a dependency and add
MIME::Base64 3.03 instead.
* Check return values of I/O operations like open(), close(), etc.
and die if they fail. Problem reported by Mark Martinec.
5.413 2004-09-15 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.413 RELEASED
* Fix some $VERSION = xxx assignments that were broken; make sure
VERSION shows up as 5.413 everywhere. Sorry about that!
5.412 2004-09-09 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* VERSION 5.412 RELEASED
* Recognize "binhex40", "mac-binhex" and "mac-binhex40"
Content-Transfer-Encodings.
* Filer.pm: Be much more strict in evil_filename, allowing only
a set of known good characters.
2004-09-08 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* Skip BinHex decoding if prerequisite modules not installed.
* Fix BinHex decoder so it encodes correctly; regression test for
BinHex encoding now passes.
* Require MIME::QuotedPrint 3.03 or newer.
* Rename variable "$jkfis" to "$how_encoded"
* Correct attribution of changes in changelog.
* Correct bad regexp test for "bad PDF" files.
2004-09-07 Dianne Skoll <dianne@skoll.ca>
* lib/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm (evil_filename): Make evil_filename
more paranoid (Julian Field and Martin Blapp)
* lib/MIME/Parser/Filer.pm (exorcise_filename): Delete leading and
trailing whitespace (Julian Field)
* Remove all the Benchmark code (Martin Blapp)
* lib/MIME/Decoder.pm: Add support for BinHex encoded attachments
(Julian Field)
* lib/MIME/Decoder.pm: Require MIME::QuotedPrint 3.03 or newer
for correct decoding of binary attachments. (Alexey Kravchuk)
* lib/MIME/Decoder/QuotedPrint.pm: Attempt to deal sanely with
PDF files encoded using quoted-printable encoding by Outlook,
which does not follow the RFC guidelines. (Martin Blapp)
* lib/MIME/Field/ParamVal.pm: Deal with RFC2231-encoded parameters.
* lib/MIME/Head.pm: Correct "7-bit", "7 bit" and "7_bit" to 7bit;
likewise for 8bit lookalikes. (Martin Blapp)
* lib/MIME/Parser.pm: Add max_parts method to limit maximum number
of MIME parts we are willing to parse.
* DSKOLL took over maintainership of MIME::tools at version 5.411a.
Version 5.411
Regenerated docs. Bug in HTML docs, now all fixed.
Version 5.410 (2000/11/23)
Better detection of evil filenames. Now we check for filenames which
are suspiciously long, and a new MIME::Filer::exorcise_filename()
method is used to try and remove the evil. *Thanks to Jason Haar for
the suggestion.*
Version 5.409 (2000/11/12)
Added functionality to MIME::WordDecoder, including support for
plain US-ASCII.
MIME::Tools::tmpopen() made more flexible. You can now override the
tmpfile-opening behavior.
Version 5.408 (2000/11/10)
Added new Beta unmime() mechanism. See the MIME::WordDecoder manpage
for full details. Also see the section on "Understand how
international characters are represented".
Version 5.405 (2000/11/05)
Added a purge() that does what people want it to. Now, when a parse
finishes and you want to delete everything that was created by it,
you can invoke `purge()' on the parser's filer. All
files/directories created during the last parse should vanish.
*Thanks to everyone who complained about MIME::Entity::purge.*
Version 5.404 (2000/11/04)
Added new automatic MIME-decoding of attachment filenames with
encoded (non-ASCII) characters. Hopefully this will do more good
than harm. The use of MIME::Parser::decode_headers() and
MIME::Head::decode() has been deprecated in favor of the new
MIME::Words "unmime" mechanism. Please see the "unmime" entry in the
MIME::Words manpage.
Added tolerance for unquoted =?...?= in param values. This is in
violation of the RFCs, but then, so are some MUAs. *Thanks to desti
for bringing this to my attention.*
Fixed supposedly-bad B-encoding. *Thanks to Otto Frost for bringing
this to my attention.*
Version 5.316 (2000/09/21)
Increased tolerance in MIME::Parser. Now will ignore bogus POP3
"+OK" line before header, as well as bogus mailbox "From " line
(both with warnings). *Thanks to Antony OSullivan (ajos1) for
suggesting this feature.*
Fixed small epilogue-related bug in MIME::Entity::print_body(). Now
it only outputs a final newline if the epilogue does not end in one
already. Support for checking the preamble/epilogue in regression
tests was also added. *Thanks to Lars Hecking for bringing this
issue up.*
Updated documentation. All module manual pages should now direct
readers to the main MIME-tools manual page.
Version 5.314 (2000/09/06)
Fixed Makefile.PL to have less-restrictive requirement for
File::Spec (0.6).
Version 5.313 (2000/09/05)
Fixed nasty bug with evil filenames. Certain evil filenames were
getting replaced by internally-generated filenames which were just
as evil... ouch! If your parser occasionally throws a fatal
exception with a "write-open" error message, then you have this bug.
*Thanks to Julian Field and Antony OSullivan (ajos1) for delivering
the evidence!*
Beware the doctor
who cures seasonal head cold
by killing patient
Improved naming of extracted files. If a filename is regarded as
evil, we guess that it might just be because of part information,
and attempt to find and use the final path element.
Simplified message logging and made it more consistent. For details,
see the section on "Message-logging".
Version 5.312 (2000/09/03)
Fixed a Perl 5.7 select() incompatibility which caused "make test"
to fail. *Thanks to Nick Ing-Simmons for the patch.*
Version 5.311 (2000/08/16)
Blind fix for Win32 uudecoding bug. A missing binmode seems to be
the culprit here; let's see if this fixes it. *Thanks to ajos1 for
finding the culprit!*
The carriage return
thumbs its nose at me, laughing:
DOS I/O *still* sucks
Version 5.310 (2000/08/15)
Fixed a bug in the back-compat output_prefix() method of
MIME::Parser. Basically, output prefixes were not being set through
this mechanism. *Thanks to ajos1 for the alert.*
shift @_, ### "shift at-underscore"
or @_ will have
bogus "self" object
Added some backcompat methods, like parse_FH(). *Thanks (and
apologies) to Alain Kotoujansky.*
Added filenames-with-spaces support to MIME::Decoder::UU. *Thanks to
Richard Pun for the suggestion.*
Version 5.305 (2000/07/20)
Added MIME::Entity::parts_DFS as convenient way to "get all parts".
*Thanks to Xavier Armengou for suggesting this method.*
Removed the Alpha notice. Still a few features to tweak, but those
will be minor.
Version 5.303 (2000/07/07)
Fixed output bugs in new Filers. Scads of them: bad handling of
filename collisions, bad implementation of output_under(), bad
linking to results, POD errors, you name it. If this had gone to
CPAN, I'd have issued a factory recall. `:-('
Errors, like beetles,
Multiply ferociously
In the small hours
Version 5.301 (2000/07/06)
READ ME BEFORE UPGRADING PAST THIS POINT! New MIME::Parser::Filer
class -- not fully backwards-compatible. In response to demand for
more-comprehensive file-output strategies, I have decided that the
best thing to do is to split all the file-output logic
(output_path(), evil_filename(), etc.) into its own separate class,
inheriting from the new MIME::Parser::Filer class. If you *override*
any of the following in a MIME::Parser subclass, you will need to
change your code accordingly:
evil_filename
output_dir
output_filename
output_path
output_prefix
output_under
My sincere apologies for any inconvenience this will cause, but it's
ultimately for the best, and is quite likely the last structural
change to 5.x. *Thanks to Tyson Ackland for all the ideas.*
Incidentally, the new code also fixes a bug where identically-named
files in the same message could clobber each other.
A message arrives:
"Here are three files, all named 'Foo'"
Only one survives. :-(
Fixed bug in MIME::Words header decoding. Underscores were not being
handled properly. *Thanks to Dominique Unruh and Doru Petrescu,* who
independently submitted the same fix within 2 hours of each other,
after this bug has lain dormant for months:
Two users, same bug,
same patch -- mere hours apart:
Truly, life is odd.
Removed escaping of underscore in regexps. Escaping the underscore
(\_) in regexps was sloppy and wrong (escaped metacharacters may
include anything in \w), and the newest Perls warn about it. *Thanks
to David Dyck for bringing this to my attention.*
What, then, is a word?
Some letters, digits, and, yes:
Underscores as well
Added Force option to MIME::Entity's make_multipart. *Thanks to Bob
Glickstein for suggesting this.*
Numerous fixlets to example code. *Thanks to Doru Petrescu for
these.*
Added REQUIREMENTS section in docs. Long-overdue. *Thanks to Ingo
Schmiegel for motivating this.*
Version 5.211 (2000/06/24)
Fixed auto-uudecode bug. Parser was failing with "part did not end
with expected boundary" error when uuencoded entity was a
*singlepart* message (ironically, uuencoded parts of multiparts
worked fine). *Thanks to Michael Mohlere for testing uudecode and
finding this.*
The hurrying bee
Flies far for nectar, missing
The nearest flowers
Say ten thousand times:
Complex cases may succeed
Where simple ones fail
Parse errors now generate warnings. Parser errors now cause warn()s
to be generated if they are not turned into fatal exceptions. This
might be a little redundant, seeing as they are available in the
"results", but parser-warnings already cause warn()s. I can always
put in a "quiet" switch if people complain.
Miscellaneous cleanup. Documentation of MIME::Parser improved
slightly, and a redundant warning was removed.
Version 5.210 (2000/06/20)
Change in "evil" filename. Made MIME::Parser's evil_filename
stricter by having it reject "path" characters: any of '/' '\' ':'
'[' ']'.
Just as with beauty
The eye of the beholder
Is where "evil" lives.
Documentation fixes. Corrected a number of docs in MIME::Entity
which were obsoleted in the transition from 4.x to 5.x. *Thanks to
Michael Fischer for pointing these out.* For this one, a special 5-
5-5-5 Haiku of anagrams:
Documentation
in mutant code, O!
Edit -- no, CUT! [moan]
I meant to un-doc...
IO::Lines usage bug fixed. MIME::Entity was missing a "use
IO::Lines", which caused an exception when you tried to use the
body() method of MIME::Entity. *Thanks to Hideyo Imazu and Michael
Fischer for pointing this out.*
Bareword looks fine, but
Perl cries: "Whoa there... IO::Lines?
Never heard of it."
Version 5.209 (2000/06/10)
Autodetection of uuencode. You can now tell the parser to hunt for
uuencode inside what should be text parts. See extract_uuencode()
for full details. Beware: this is largely untested at the moment.
*Special thanks to Michael Mohlere at ADJE Webmail, who was the
first -- and most-insistent -- user to request this feature.*
Faster parsing. Sped up the MIME::Decoder::NBit decoder quite a bit
by using a variant of the chunking trick I used for
MIME::Decoder::Base64. I suspect that the same trick (reading a big
chunk plus the next line to get a big block of lines) would work
with MIME::Decoder::QuotedPrint, but I don't have the time or
resources to check that right now (tested contributions would be
welcome). NBit encoding is more-conveniently done line-by-line for
now, because individual line lengths must be checked.
Better use of core. MIME::Body::InCore is now used when you build()
an entity with the Data parameter, instead of MIME::Body::Scalar.
More documentation on toolkit configuration.
Version 5.207 (2000/06/09)
Fixed whine() bug in MIME::Parser where the "warning" method whine()
was called as a static function instead of invoked as an instance
method. *Thanks to Todd A. Bradfute for reporting this.*
A simple warning
Invokes method as function:
"Warning" makes us die
Version 5.206 (2000/06/08)
Ahem. Cough cough:
Way too many bugs
Thus, a self-imposed penance:
Write haiku for each
Fixed bug in MIME::Parser: the reader was not handling the odd (but
legal) case where a multipart boundary is followed by linear
whitespace. *Thanks to Jon Agnew for reporting this with the RFC
citation.*
Legal message fails
And 'round the globe, thousands cry:
READ THE RFC
Empty preambles are now handled properly by MIME::Entity when
printing: there is now no space between the header-terminator and
the initial boundary. *Thanks to "sen_ml" for suggesting this.*
Nature hates vacuum
But please refrain from tossing
Newlines in the void
Started using Benchmark for benchmarking.
Version 5.205 (2000/06/06)
Added terminating newline to all parser messages, and fixed small
parser bug that was dropping parts when errors occurred in certain
places.
Version 5.203 (2000/06/05)
Brand new parser based on new (private) MIME::Parser::Reader and
(public) MIME::Parser::Results. Fast and yet simple and very
tolerant of bad MIME when desired. Message reporting needs some
muzzling.
MIME::Parser now has ignore_errors() set true by default.
Version 5.116 (2000/05/26)
Removed Tmpfile.t test, which was causing a bogus failure in "make
test". Now we require 5.004 for MIME::Parser anyway, so we don't
need it. *Thanks to Jonathan Cohn for reporting this.*
Version 5.115 (2000/05/24)
Fixed Ref.t bug, and documented how to remove parts from a
MIME::Entity.
Version 5.114 (2000/05/23)
Entity now uses MIME::Lite-style default suggested encoding.
More regression test have been added, and the "Size" tests in Ref.t
are skipped for text document (due to CRLF differences between
platforms).
Version 5.113 (2000/05/21)
Major speed and structural improvements to the parser. *Major, MAJOR
thanks to Noel Burton-Krahn, Jeremy Gilbert, and Doru Petrescu for
all the patches, benchmarking, and Beta-testing!*
Convenient new one-directory-per-message parsing mechanism. Now
through `MIME::Parser' method `output_under()', you can tell the
parser that you want it to create a unique directory for each
message parsed, to hold the resulting parts.
Elimination of $', $` and $&. Wow... I still can't believe I missed
this. D'OH! *Thanks to Noel Burton-Krahn for all his patches.*
Parser is more tolerant of weird EOL termination. Some mailagents
are can terminate lines with "\r\r\n". We're okay with that now when
we extract the header. *Thanks to Joao Fonseca for pointing this
out.*
Parser is tolerant of "From " lines in headers. *Thanks to Joachim
Wieland, Anthony Hinsinger, Marius Stan, and numerous others.*
Parser catches syntax errors in headers. *Thanks to Russell P.
Sutherland for catching this.*
Parser no longer warns when subtype is undefined. *Thanks to Eric-
Olivier Le Bigot for his fix.*
Better integration with Mail::Internet. For example, smtpsend()
should work fine. *Thanks to Michael Fischer and others for the
patch.*
Miscellaneous cleanup. *Thanks to Marcus Brinkmann for additional
helpful input.* *Thanks to Klaus Seidenfaden for good feedback on
5.x Alpha!*
Version 4.123 (1999/05/12)
Cleaned up some of the tests for non-Unix OS'es. Will require a few
iterations, no doubt.
Version 4.122 (1999/02/09)
Resolved CORE::open warnings for 5.005. *Thanks to several folks for
this bug report.*
Version 4.121 (1998/06/03)
Fixed MIME::Words infinite recursion. *Thanks to several folks for
this bug report.*
Version 4.117 (1998/05/01)
Nicer MIME::Entity::build. No longer outputs warnings with undefined
Filename, and now accepts Charset as well. *Thanks to Jason Tibbits
III for the inspirational patch.*
Documentation fixes. Hopefully we've seen the last of the pod2man
warnings...
Better test logging. Now uses ExtUtils::TBone.
Version 4.116 (1998/02/14)
Bug fix: MIME::Head and MIME::Entity were not downcasing the
content-type as they claimed. This has now been fixed. *Thanks to
Rodrigo de Almeida Siqueira for finding this.*
Version 4.114 (1998/02/12)
Gzip64-encoding has been improved, and turned off as a default,
since it depends on having gzip installed. See MIME::Decoder::Gzip64
if you want to activate it in your app. You can now set up the
gzip/gunzip commands to use, as well. *Thanks to Paul J. Schinder
for finding this bug.*
Version 4.113 (1998/01/20)
Bug fix: MIME::ParserBase was accidentally folding newlines in
header fields. *Thanks to Jason L. Tibbitts III for spotting this.*
Version 4.112 (1998/01/17)
MIME::Entity::print_body now recurses when printing multipart
entities, and prints "everything following the header." This is more
likely what people expect to happen. PLEASE read the "two body
problem" section of MIME::Entity's docs.
Version 4.111 (1998/01/14)
Clean build/test on Win95 using 5.004. Whew.
Version 4.110 (1998/01/11)
Added make_multipart() and make_singlepart() in MIME::Entity.
Improved handling/saving of preamble/epilogue.
Version 4.109 (1998/01/10)
Overall Major version shift to 4.x accompanies numerous structural changes,
and the deletion of some long-deprecated code. Many apologies to
those who are inconvenienced by the upgrade.
MIME::IO deprecated. You'll see IO::Scalar, IO::ScalarArray, and
IO::Wrap to make this toolkit work.
MIME::Entity deep code. You can now deep-copy MIME entities
(except for on-disk data files).
Encoding/decoding
MIME::Latin1 deprecated, and 8-to-7 mapping removed. Really,
MIME::Latin1 was one of my more dumber ideas. It's still there,
but if you want to map 8-bit characters to Latin1 ASCII
approximations when 7bit encoding, you'll have to request it
explicitly. *But use quoted-printable for your 8-bit documents;
that's what it's there for!*
7bit and 8bit "encoders" no longer encode. As per RFC-2045,
these just do a pass-through of the data, but they'll warn you
if you send bad data through.
MIME::Entity suggests encoding. Now you can ask MIME::Entity's
build() method to "suggest" a legal encoding based on the body
and the content-type. No more guesswork! See the "mimesend"
example.
New module structure for MIME::Decoder classes. It should be
easier for you to see what's happening.
New MIME decoders! Support added for decoding `x-uuencode', and
for decoding/encoding `x-gzip64'. You'll need "gzip" to make the
latter work.
Quoted-printable back on track... and then some. The 'quoted-
printable' decoder now uses the newest MIME::QuotedPrint, and
amends its output with guideline #8 from RFC2049 (From/.).
*Thanks to Denis N. Antonioli for suggesting this.*
Parsing Preamble and epilogue are now saved. These are saved in the parsed
entities as simple string-arrays, and are output by print() if
there. *Thanks to Jason L. Tibbitts for suggesting this.*
The "multipart/digest" semantics are now preserved. Parts of
digest messages have their mime_type() defaulted to
"message/rfc822" instead of "text/plain", as per the RFC.
*Thanks to Carsten Heyl for suggesting this.*
Output Well-defined, more-complete print() output. When printing an entity,
the output is now well-defined if the entity came from a
MIME::Parser, even if using parse_nested_messages. See
MIME::Entity for details.
You can prevent recommended filenames from being output. This
possible security hole has been plugged; when building MIME
entities, you can specify a body path but suppress the filename
in the header. *Thanks to Jason L. Tibbitts for suggesting
this.*
Bug fixes
Win32 installations should work. The binmode() calls should work
fine on Win32 now. *Thanks to numerous folks for their patches.*
MIME::Head::add() now no longer downcases its argument. *Thanks
to Brandon Browning & Jason L. Tibbitts for finding this bug.*
Version 3.204
Bug in MIME::Head::original_text fixed. Well, it took a while, but
another bug surfaced from my transition from 1.x to 2.x. This method
was, quite idiotically, sorting the header fields. *Thanks, as
usual, to Andreas Koenig for spotting this one.*
MIME::ParserBase no longer defaults to RFC-1522-decoding headers.
The documentation correctly stated that the default setting was to
*not* RFC-1522-decode the headers. The code, on the other hand, was
init'ing this parser option in the "on" position. This has been
fixed.
MIME::ParserBase::parse_nested_messages reexamined. If you use this
feature, please re-read the documentation. It explains a little more
precisely what the ramifications are.
MIME::Entity tries harder to ensure MIME compliance. It is now a
fatal error to use certain bad combinations of content type and
encoding when "building", or to attempt to "attach" to anything that
is not a multipart document. My apologies if this inconveniences
anyone, but it was just too darn easy before for folks to create bad
MIME, and gosh darn it, good libraries should at least *try* to
protect you from mistakes.
The "make" now halts if you don't have the right stuff, provided
your MakeMaker supports PREREQ_PM. See the section on "REQUIREMENTS"
for what you need to install this package. I still provide old
courtesy copies of the MIME:: decoding modules. *Thanks to Hugo van
der Sanden for suggesting this.*
The "make test" is far less chatty. Okay, okay, STDERR is evil. Now
a `"make test"' will just give you the important stuff: do a `"make
test TEST_VERBOSE=1"' if you want the gory details (advisable if
sending me a bug report). *Thanks to Andreas Koenig for suggesting
this.*
Version 3.203
No, there haven't been any major changes between 2.x and 3.x. The
major-version increase was from a few more tweaks to get $VERSION to
be calculated better and more efficiently (I had been using RCS
version numbers in a way which created problems for users of
CPAN::). After a couple of false starts, all modules have been
upgraded to RCS 3.201 or higher.
You can now parse a MIME message from a scalar, an array-of-scalars,
or any MIME::IO-compliant object (including IO:: objects.) Take a
look at parse_data() in MIME::ParserBase. The parser code has been
modified to support the MIME::IO interface. *Thanks to fellow
Chicagoan Tim Pierce (and countless others) for asking.*
More sensible toolkit configuration. A new config() method in
MIME::ToolUtils makes a lot of toolkit-wide configuration cleaner.
Your old calls will still work, but with deprecation warnings.
You can now sign messages just like in Mail::Internet. See
MIME::Entity for the interface.
You can now remove signatures from messages just like in
Mail::Internet. See MIME::Entity for the interface.
You can now compute/strip content lengths and other non-standard
MIME fields. See sync_headers() in MIME::Entity. *Thanks to Tim
Pierce for bringing the basic problem to my attention.*
Many warnings are now silent unless $^W is true. That means unless
you run your Perl with `-w', you won't see deprecation warnings,
non-fatal-error messages, etc. But of course you run with `-w', so
this doesn't affect you. `:-)'
Completed the 7-bit encodings in MIME::Latin1. We hadn't had
complete coverage in the conversion from 8- to 7-bit; now we do.
*Thanks to Rolf Nelson for bringing this to my attention.*
Fixed broken parse_two() in MIME::ParserBase. BTW, if your code
worked with the "broken" code, it should *still* work. *Thanks again
to Tim Pierce for bringing this to my attention.*
Version 2.14
Just a few bug fixes to improve compatibility with Mail-Tools 1.08,
and with the upcoming Perl 5.004 release. *Thanks to Jason L.
Tibbitts III for reporting the problems so quickly.*
Version 2.13
New features
Added RFC-1522-style decoding of encoded header fields. Header
decoding can now be done automatically during parsing via the
new `decode()' method in MIME::Head... just tell your parser
object that you want to `decode_headers()'. *Thanks to Kent
Boortz for providing the idea, and the baseline RFC-1522-
decoding code!*
Building MIME messages is even easier. Now, when you use
MIME::Entity's `build()' or `attach()', you can also supply
individual mail headers to set (e.g., `-Subject', `-From', `-
To').
Added `Disposition' to MIME::Entity's `build()' method. *Thanks
to Kurt Freytag for suggesting this feature.*
An `X-Mailer' header is now output by default in all MIME-
Entity-prepared messages, so any bad MIME we generate can be
traced back to this toolkit.
Added `purge()' method to MIME::Entity for deleteing leftover
files. *Thanks to Jason L. Tibbitts III for suggesting this
feature.*
Added `seek()' and `tell()' methods to built-in MIME::IO
classes. Only guaranteed to work when reading! *Thanks to Jason
L. Tibbitts III for suggesting this feature.*
When parsing a multipart message with apparently no boundaries,
the error message you get has been improved. *Thanks to Andreas
Koenig for suggesting this.*
Bug fixes
Patched over a Perl 5.002 (and maybe earlier and later) bug
involving FileHandle::new_tmpfile. It seems that the underlying
filehandles were not being closed when the FileHandle objects
went out of scope! There is now an internal routine that creates
true FileHandle objects for anonymous temp files. *Thanks to
Dragomir R. Radev and Zyx for reporting the weird behavior that
led to the discovery of this bug.*
MIME::Entity's `build()' method now warns you if you give it an
illegal boundary string, and substitutes one of its own.
MIME::Entity's `build()' method now generates safer, fully-RFC-
1521-compliant boundary strings.
Bug in MIME::Decoder's `install()' method was fixed. *Thanks to
Rolf Nelson and Nickolay Saukh for finding this.*
Changed FileHandle::new_tmpfile to FileHandle->new_tmpfile, so
some Perl installations will be happier. *Thanks to Larry W.
Virden for finding this bug.*
Gave `=over' an arg of 4 in all PODs. *Thanks to Larry W. Virden
for pointing out the problems of bare =over's*
Version 2.04
A bug in MIME::Entity's output method was corrected.
MIME::Entity::print now outputs everything to the desired filehandle
explicitly. *Thanks to Jake Morrison for pointing out the
incompatibility with Mail::Header.*
Version 2.03
Fixed bug in autogenerated filenames resulting from transposed "if"
statement in MIME::Parser, removing spurious printing of header as
well. (Annoyingly, this bug is invisible if debugging is turned on!)
*Thanks to Andreas Koenig for bringing this to my attention.*
Fixed bug in MIME::Entity::body() where it was using the bodyhandle
completely incorrectly. *Thanks to Joel Noble for bringing this to
my attention.*
Fixed MIME::Head::VERSION so CPAN:: is happier. *Thanks to Larry
Virden for bringing this to my attention.*
Fixed undefined-variable warnings when dumping skeleton (happened
when there was no Subject: line) *Thanks to Joel Noble for bringing
this to my attention.*
Version 2.02
Stupid, stupid bugs in both BASE64 encoding and decoding were fixed.
*Thanks to Phil Abercrombie for locating them.*
Version 2.01
Modules now inherit from the new Mail:: modules! This means big
changes in behavior.
MIME::Parser can now store message data in-core. There were a *lot*
of requests for this feature.
MIME::Entity can now compose messages. There were a *lot* of
requests for this feature.
Added option to parse `"message/rfc822"' as a pseduo-multipart
document. *Thanks to Andreas Koenig for suggesting this.*
Version 1.13
MIME::Head now no longer requires space after ":", although either a
space or a tab after the ":" will be swallowed if there. *Thanks to
Igor Starovoitov for pointing out this shortcoming.*
Version 1.12
Fixed bugs in parser where CRLF-terminated lines were blowing out
the handling of preambles/epilogues. *Thanks to Russell Sutherland
for reporting this bug.*
Fixed idiotic is_multipart() bug. *Thanks to Andreas Koenig for
noticing it.*
Added untested binmode() calls to parser for DOS, etc. systems. No
idea if this will work...
Reorganized the output_path() methods to allow easy use of
inheritance, as per Achim Bohnet's suggestion.
Changed MIME::Head to report mime_type more accurately.
POSIX module no longer loaded by Parser if perl >= 5.002. Hey,
5.001'ers: let me know if this breaks stuff, okay?
Added unsupported ./examples directory.
Version 1.11
Converted over to using Makefile.PL. *Thanks to Andreas Koenig for
the much-needed kick in the pants...*
Added t/*.t files for testing. Eeeeeeeeeeeh...it's a start.
Fixed bug in default parsing routine for generating output paths; it
was warning about evil filenames if there simply *were* no
recommended filenames. D'oh!
Fixed redefined parts() method in Entity.
Fixed bugs in Head where field name wasn't being case folded.
Version 1.10
A typo was causing the epilogue of an inner multipart message to be
swallowed to the end of the OUTER multipart message; this has now
been fixed. *Thanks to Igor Starovoitov for reporting this bug.*
A bad regexp for parameter names was causing some parameters to be
parsed incorrectly; this has also been fixed. *Thanks again to Igor
Starovoitov for reporting this bug.*
It is now possible to get full control of the filenaming algorithm
before output files are generated, and the default algorithm is
safer. *Thanks to Laurent Amon for pointing out the problems, and
suggesting some solutions.*
Fixed illegal "simple" multipart test file. D'OH!
Version 1.9
No changes: 1.8 failed CPAN registration
Version 1.8
Fixed incompatibility with 5.001 and FileHandle::new_tmpfile Added
COPYING file, and improved README.