> -----Original Message----- > From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 6:14 PM > To: NYIMI Jose (BMB); Perl Beginners > Subject: RE: Favorite email parser? > > > > > > > > > -----Original Message----- > > > From: Wiggins d Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 2004 3:48 PM > > > To: Perl Beginners > > > Subject: Re: Favorite email parser? > > > > > > > > Mail::Box is excellent and incredibly thorough, which also > > > means it is incredibly complex and has a pretty steep > > > learning curve. It was by far the most robust mail handling > > > I could find, and took me the longest to learn. It is also > > > not the most efficient, but then that wasn't our goal. > > > > I'm using with a lot success Mail::Box and I'm curious to > know Which > > aspect of Mail::Box you found to be not effecient ? > > > > Load time mostly, since it is a massive library. For our app > that didn't matter much since it runs for months at a time > and we have much more overhead with POE. We are also running > off a pretty old version, and with all of the memory leak > fixes and the C parser, it might be significantly better than > when I was doing load testing (year ago). > > Doubt it would stack up compared to some of the other mail > parsers, but then they wouldn't in feature list come even > close, but that is really a hinderance of Perl in general > rather than anything specific about MB. > Essentially with the need for so many objects and doing > everything through methods there is a fair amount of overhead > even if you just want to do something trivial, but that *is* > the point, it is a very good interface for doing non-trivial things. >
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