email::mime::* make me crazy

I’ve been doing a lot of work on our internal library for building multipart email messages from templates. Email::MIME has been stabbing me in the face much of the time.

Here’s just a little sample:

use strict;
use Email::MIME::Creator;

my $email = Email::MIME->create(
  attributes => { content_type => 'image/jpeg' },
);

print $email->as_string;

The above code prints:

Date: Tue, 20 Jan 2009 15:32:52 -0500
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: image/jpeg; charset="us-ascii"

Good to know that our jpeg is in the us-ascii charset.

Written on January 20, 2009