Email text encoding

[Jan Eden]

Hi Thomas,

Thomas Bätzler wrote:

>Hi,
>
>Jan Eden <lists@jan-eden.de> wrote:

>> and thanks for all the previous suggestions regarding email
>> modules. Now it turned out that my ISP refuses to let me
>> install *any* additional Perl module on the server, so I have
>> to use sendmail.

>
>Well, I'm sure he won't let you install a module in the global
>module search path. But if you can upload files to your CGI
>directory, you can use any "pure Perl" module, too.
>Just upload the module in the proper subdiretory structure on
>the server and then use a "use lib" statement in your code to
>point your CGI program to the proper search path.
>

I thought about this, but until now I have always installed modules from CPAN using the Makefile.PL / make / make test / make install routine. I am not sure which files of a given module I have to copy to a server and at which point of the installation process all of these files are available.

I will read perlmod and try to go this way.

Thank you,

Jan
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[Jan Eden]

Wiggins d Anconia wrote:

>>Hi,
>>
>>and thanks for all the previous suggestions regarding email modules.

>Now it turned out that my ISP refuses to let me install *any*
>additional Perl module on the server, so I have to use sendmail.

>>

>
>Switch ISPs? Sorry this isn't the answer you want. Sorry I can't
>provide more help with respect to your encoding issues, but e-mail
>itself is incredibly complex and personally I would run for the
>hills (read: find a new ISP) before messing with it directly
>anymore, *especially* when doing the type of things you are talking
>about.
>

Apart from this issue, I am relatively happy with my ISP, so I tend to waita little bit.

>>Is there anything I can do about this? How do I correctly encode
>>8-bit characters when I do not have access to a module?
>>

>
>Have you read:
>
>perldoc utf8 perldoc perlunicode
>

I will now.

Thank you,

Ja
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Hanlon's Razor: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.