lib/PublicInbox/MIME.pm         | 2 ++
 lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm    | 2 --
 lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm   | 2 --
 lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm | 2 --
 lib/PublicInbox/WwwAttach.pm    | 3 +--
 script/public-inbox-learn       | 2 --
 script/public-inbox-mda         | 4 +---
 scripts/import_slrnspool        | 4 ++--
 scripts/import_vger_from_mbox   | 3 +--

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/MIME.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/MIME.pm
index 54925a853258bf6856010f525f24832a1ad7ea8f..456eed64b8c444647c75bb1c21fa10ec512ad484 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/MIME.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/MIME.pm
@@ -23,6 +23,8 @@ package PublicInbox::MIME;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use base qw(Email::MIME);
+use Email::MIME::ContentType;
+$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0;
 
 if ($Email::MIME::VERSION <= 1.937) {
 sub parts_multipart {
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
index f9207e9464cd1dd3afe89b3b1052635db1682ea5..0c3445d5d06c5504ea59181739897e3a41216f8c 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/SearchIdx.pm
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Fcntl qw(:flock :DEFAULT);
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
-use Email::MIME::ContentType;
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0;
 use base qw(PublicInbox::Search);
 use PublicInbox::MID qw/mid_clean id_compress mid_mime/;
 use PublicInbox::MsgIter;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
index 3451261e4ee1f902dddce340a4a38780cfae3795..5e819da48459e02829c80f8999a12fda3d8b04c9 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/V2Writable.pm
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ use PublicInbox::SearchIdxThread;
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::Git;
 use PublicInbox::Import;
-use Email::MIME::ContentType;
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0;
 
 # an estimate of the post-packed size to the raw uncompressed size
 my $PACKING_FACTOR = 0.4;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm
index 403b6cf951d8e1b4b18a7ad4a68615c410166f81..3da6b276ffa13b5e5e1e3d39e81d81ba43607b11 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WatchMaildir.pm
@@ -7,8 +7,6 @@ package PublicInbox::WatchMaildir;
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
-use Email::MIME::ContentType;
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0; # user input is imperfect
 use PublicInbox::Git;
 use PublicInbox::Import;
 use PublicInbox::MDA;
diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAttach.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAttach.pm
index 98cf9f7096d68958462214b05ac7b47bdad5c883..b1504f526725286b671074beadced88a9be996a9 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAttach.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WwwAttach.pm
@@ -5,9 +5,8 @@ # For retrieving attachments from messages in the WWW interface
 package PublicInbox::WwwAttach; # internal package
 use strict;
 use warnings;
-use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use Email::MIME::ContentType qw(parse_content_type);
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0;
+use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::MsgIter;
 
 # /$LISTNAME/$MESSAGE_ID/$IDX-$FILENAME
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-learn b/script/public-inbox-learn
index bdc72e08b94febd2b26c77f2c410d1a9d3a8c35b..c51f95856a137d7f0f4dac7c855e3cf741a732cd 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-learn
+++ b/script/public-inbox-learn
@@ -11,8 +11,6 @@ use PublicInbox::Config;
 use PublicInbox::Git;
 use PublicInbox::Import;
 use PublicInbox::MIME;
-use Email::MIME::ContentType;
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0; # user input is imperfect
 use PublicInbox::Address;
 use PublicInbox::Spamcheck::Spamc;
 my $train = shift or die "usage: $usage\n";
diff --git a/script/public-inbox-mda b/script/public-inbox-mda
index 8cf441957cc01a59506df54e83b816fd24e5edbb..f1eaf629b34012a696eb59ef6af85bc13e6cb7e4 100755
--- a/script/public-inbox-mda
+++ b/script/public-inbox-mda
@@ -15,9 +15,7 @@ 	exit $code;
 }
 
 use Email::Simple;
-use Email::MIME;
-use Email::MIME::ContentType;
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0; # user input is imperfect
+use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::MDA;
 use PublicInbox::Config;
 use PublicInbox::Import;
diff --git a/scripts/import_slrnspool b/scripts/import_slrnspool
index 5158460bfa1bfdba325a90c28dd1dfd2e654e92c..7b6c9ab0656b9e0af0edb99f3fd58566451356de 100755
--- a/scripts/import_slrnspool
+++ b/scripts/import_slrnspool
@@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ =cut
 use strict;
 use warnings;
 use PublicInbox::Config;
-use Email::MIME;
+use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::Import;
 use PublicInbox::Git;
 sub usage { "Usage:\n".join('',grep(/\t/, `head -n 10 $0`)) }
@@ -58,7 +58,7 @@ 	print STDERR $fn, "\n";
 	open(my $fh, '<', $fn) or next;
 	$max = $n + $max_gap;
 
-	my $mime = Email::MIME->new(eval { local $/; <$fh> });
+	my $mime = PublicInbox::MIME->new(eval { local $/; <$fh> });
 	my $hdr = $mime->header_obj;
 
 	# gmane rewrites Received headers, which increases spamminess
diff --git a/scripts/import_vger_from_mbox b/scripts/import_vger_from_mbox
index 1308483599ead8007ad884422ff9a44f6a3a4a5e..8f0ec7cd8ae2227565338008ed9bccd0fcbadfb1 100644
--- a/scripts/import_vger_from_mbox
+++ b/scripts/import_vger_from_mbox
@@ -5,8 +5,7 @@ use strict;
 use warnings;
 use Getopt::Long qw/:config gnu_getopt no_ignore_case auto_abbrev/;
 use Date::Parse qw/str2time/;
-use Email::MIME;
-$Email::MIME::ContentType::STRICT_PARAMS = 0; # user input is imperfect
+use PublicInbox::MIME;
 use PublicInbox::Inbox;
 use PublicInbox::V2Writable;
 use PublicInbox::Import;