OT: culprit in MIME recoding and breaking signatures

[Kevin J. McCarthy]

On Thu, Nov 22, 2018 at 10:40:22PM -0800, Ian Zimmerman wrote:
>The winner appears to be Perl, namely the Mail::Audit module (and 
>whatever other modules it relies on).  I had a couple of scripts that 
>did gentle transformations of incoming mails.

Congratulations on tracking this down.

>This is a very unpleasant surprise, I have thought of Perl and the more 
>popular CPAN modules as the good old workhorse which would always do 
>the job efficiently and reliably - if not always legibly :) I 
>intentionally preferred Perl for this task over some combination of 
>procmail, formail, sed and pcregrep which would have worked.  My world 
>is crumbling :(

I'm a bit surprised too.  Although it has fallen out of favor, I have 
used and relied on Perl for a long time too, and it never let me down.

-- 
Kevin J. McCarthy
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