I'm not against this package being added as some helper for using an SMTP server is a reasonable need for the container. I am confused about the claim that MIME::Lite is currently installed on the grid engine nodes:

$ whence dpkg-installed
dpkg-installed is aliased to `dpkg -l|grep ^ii|awk '{printf "%-20s %s\n", $2, $3}''
$ dpkg-installed | grep libmime-lite-perl
$ echo $?
1
$ cpan -l 2>/dev/null | grep Mime::Lite
$ echo $?
1

You're quite right; MIME::Lite is not available on the Grid. We never needed it there because we had sendmail and later exim.

In T320904#8323402, @Hawkeye7 wrote:

You're quite right; MIME::Lite is not available on the Grid. We never needed it there because we had sendmail and later exim.

"The usual and easiest way of doing this is via the MIME::Lite module but this has not been provided in the perl532-tf container, although it is available on the Grid." -- I would appreciate you adjusting your task description to reflect the reality that this is an ask for a new new package rather than claiming that it is a regression fix.

I have edited the request. I created it as a feature, not a bug report.

Change 919920 had a related patch set uploaded (by BryanDavis; author: Bryan Davis):

[operations/docker-images/toollabs-images@master] perl532: Add libmime-lite-perl

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/919920

Change 919920 merged by jenkins-bot:

[operations/docker-images/toollabs-images@master] perl532: Add libmime-lite-perl

https://gerrit.wikimedia.org/r/919920

Mentioned in SAL (#wikimedia-cloud) [2023-05-19T08:46:31Z] <bd808> Building new perl532-sssd/{base,web} images (T323522, T320904)