[ic] Email tag / MIME:Lite

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

On 10/6/20 12:13 PM, Phil Smith wrote:
>>> 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?

I never encountered your problem with [email], regardless of MIME::Lite version, but I run my catalogs
always in global mode:

AllowGlobal myshop
PerlAlwaysGlobal myshop

Currently I'm using Email::Sender from within a global usertag.

Regards
        Racke


> 
>  
> 
>  
> 
> Thanks
> 
>  
> 
> Phil.
> 
> 
> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient>
> Virus-free. www.avg.com
> <http://www.avg.com/email-signature?utm_medium=email&utm_source=link&utm_campaign=sig-email&utm_content=emailclient>
> 
> <#DAB4FAD8-2DD7-40BB-A1B8-4E2AA1F9FDF2>
> 
> _______________________________________________
> interchange-users mailing list
> interchange-users at interchangecommerce.org
> https://www.interchangecommerce.org/mailman/listinfo/interchange-users
> 


-- 
Ecommerce and Linux consulting + Perl and web application programming.
Debian and Sympa administration. Provisioning with Ansible.

-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: signature.asc
Type: application/pgp-signature
Size: 833 bytes
Desc: OpenPGP digital signature
URL: <https://www.interchangecommerce.org/pipermail/interchange-users/attachments/20201006/fe463779/attachment.sig>