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Mail-Box (2.084)

I usually do web apps, but a client threw a .dbx file at me that needed some manipulation.

Mail::Box+++++++

Did it on windows and compiled the app with PAR. Worked flawlessly.

Mail::Box+++++++

Todd Wade - 2008-11-14 23:27:48
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Mail-Box (2.084)

This module is not only difficult to understand, but also doesn't seem to work, and for added fun it takes an age to install. A winning combination! All I wanted to do was to parse an mbox file. So I downloaded and installed this. Too bad, it won't install. So, after also trying another couple of CPAN modules, I ended up writing my own parser. Guess what? Between the time I spent struggling with this module's near-incomprehensible, miserable cross-linked documentation and waiting for it to miserably fail its tests, I think I spent more time on this module than I did on writing my own mbox parser.

BKB - 2008-11-05 17:19:03
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Mail-Box (2.069)

[This review was actually for http://cpanratings.perl.org/dist/MailTools, but accidentally placed in the Mail::Box section. Follow the link for a rated review]

Jos Boumans - 2007-01-07 06:20:37
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Mail-Box (2.065)

Mail::Box is a heavy distribution, but it does it all.

I think that I would go as far as saying it is over engineered in places, but email is a tough nut to crack.

My only grudge is that sometimes the complexity of it all requires you to do lots and lots of doc/code diving to figure out what to actually do.

יובל קוג'מן - 2004-01-02 07:20:03
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