[ic] Email tag / MIME:Lite

[Gert van der Spoel]

Paul = Phil duh hehe ... Sorry Pat! :)

> -----Original Message-----
> From: interchange-users [mailto:interchange-users-
> bounces at interchangecommerce.org] On Behalf Of Gert van der Spoel
> Sent: Tuesday, October 6, 2020 13:45
> To: interchange-users at interchangecommerce.org
> Subject: Re: [ic] Email tag / MIME:Lite
> 
> >>> As a standalone perl script the same code works fine on both
> >>> servers, just when ran thru IC (in a [perl] block in a page, as a
> >>> UserTag or in the test_code admin page) it hangs on the
> >>> MIME::Lite->new() creation of the object.
> 
> >>I suspect that this might be a Safe issue.  The first thing I would
> >>check is the SafeUntrap directive in interchange.cfg, make sure there
> >>isn't anything you've untrapped in the old catalog that isn't listed
> >>in the new one.
> 
> >>Also try calling the email tag from outside of the [perl] block, just
> >>with ITL.  If this works then it's very likely going to be Safe.
> 
> >>Other than that it could just be changes in perl, Safe issues are hard
> >>to track down and things sometimes go awry in newer versions of perl.
> >>There are others here who are likely better at dealing with Safe
> >>issues than I am, my preferred method is to rewrite code where
> >>necessary so it's outside of [perl] and [calc] blocks and get on with my day.
> 
> >>Peter
> 
> >There was a load of untrapped modules in the old catalog, I have added them
> to the new catalog and it still hangs in the same >place.
> 
> >I have also tried a plain page, with just the [email] tag in, so not wrapping it
> with [perl] or [calc], and again it hangs in the same >place until apache times
> out.
> 
> >I may have to write my own version of the [email] tag using a different
> module than MIME::Lite, even the developer of >MIME::Lite recommends that.
> “MIME::Lite is not recommended by its current maintainer. There are a
> number of alternatives, >like Email::MIME or MIME::Entity and Email::Sender,
> 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.” –
> taken from his CPAN page.
> >
> >But I cannot believe that no-one else uses the IC [email] tag anymore?
> >
> >Can anyone confirm it working on their catalo, and which versions of
> perl/IC/MIME::Lite they have?
> Hi Paul,
> 
> Would it work for you to try to see if sending mail works with email_raw tag?
> https://github.com/interchange/interchange/blob/master/code/UserTag/emai
> l_raw.tag
> 
> Call it like:
> [email-raw][include etc/my_template][/email-raw]
> 
> And then in
> etc/my_template have the mail, you can see the example for this here:
> https://github.com/interchange/interchange/blob/master/dist/strap/etc/ship
> _notice
> 
> CU,
> 
> Gert
> 
> 
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