Controlchan and MIME

[Russ Allbery]

Julien ÉLIE <julien at trigofacile.com> writes:

> Can we use MIME::Parser in controlchan?
> (and add it to the list of requirements in the man page and INSTALL)
>
> It would be easier to decode control messages and extract
> useful information (encodings and parts).
> We could also remove the currently used parse_article() in order
> to take benefit from MIME::Parser.

It would definitely be nice, and it's a standard package with most
distributions.  It's also way more attractive than rolling our own MIME
parser.

The only drawback is that it's not a Perl core package, so people would
need to install it if they're building everything by hand before they
install INN.

What do people here generally think?  Would that be a problem for anyone?

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