MIME::Lite alternative in iw_solution_email

While doing some checking of our emails I was looking up MIME::Lite for some information and noticed this by the maintainer:

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MIME::Lite is not recommended by its current maintainer. There are a number of alternatives, like Email::MIME or MIME::Entity and Email: Smiley Frustrated ender, which you should probably use instead. MIME::Lite continues to accrue weird bug reports, and it is not receiving a large amount of refactoring due to the availability of better alternatives. Please consider using something else.

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I'm considering trying to convert iw_solution_email to use one of the alternatives, before I do I was wondering if anyone else has done so successfully, and if there were any other alternatives to the ones mentioned that I should consider.

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Adam Stoller

Note that the information you're looking at is probably much more recent than when iw_solution_email.ipl was written.

There are probably a plethroa of Perl modules you could use in place of MIME::Lite - but you could also just switch to Java and use the OOTB LiveSite email program (the name escapes me right now and I'm not on a server where I can look) - or write your own - though if you're going to go down that route it becomes more a question of comfortability (personally, though I've come to reasonable grips with Java - I'd find writing the code in Perl much less daunting)

If you decide to replace MIME::Lite in [a copy of] the iw_solution_email.ipl script - chances are it will be relatively trivial on the coding end - you just need to make sure you have all the modules you need (they were probably not included in the iwperl distribution).

Brett Sargeant

Java and livesite aren't an option as we don't use Livesite or sitepublisher just Teamsite.

We need to update all of our workflows at some point, so might bundle changing the email code into that, and yes the iw_solution file we use is about 15 years old with only minor tweaks since it was created.

Adam Stoller

I believe that the LiveSite java app for sending email is included with the base TeamSite installation - it doesn't require that you use LiveSite, but it would require that your email templates were written in XSL. That being said, I think the Perl option is still viable and that changing the module used should not be that difficult.