September, 12, 2003 archives

the from() method of the Mail::Address module, part of the MailTools package in CPAN, tries to do all sorts of clever stuff to clean up the name. of course, that simply means it falls down when faced with a from header like this one:

From: =?ISO-8859-2?B?UmFkb3OzYXcgWmF3YXJ0a28=?= <foo@example.com>

it completely screws up the name because there's no handling of such encoded names, not even enough to recognize that it doesn't handle them and thus pass them through unharmed.

in my case, it turns out that i really want $addr->phrase || $addr->comment.

i haven't decided yet if i want to reindex/reimport the 200,000 messages i already processed assuming that the name() method was not stupid. (i probably will.)

this summer, i upgraded from one ice tray to two. even with that, i've had a hard time keeping the ice bin full. i've simply been using too much ice (drinking water) to really get ahead of the game.

but recently i've been doing a better job of staying ahead of myself. the key has been routine (make sure to empty the ice trays in the morning!) and making an effort to empty the trays when they're frozen even if i don't need more ice.

netflix fanatic is a nifty little application for os x that lets you manage your netflix queue.