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Thank you Athanasius, I have gone down the path of changing the content-type to something that will extract text/plain as binary files (application/x-msexcel). The code I'm using now is:

    # open the file in raw/binary output for writing
    open MAILOUT, '>:raw', "$receiving/message-$thetime-$popcount.msg"
+ or LogWrite("Unable to open message-$thetime-$popcount.msg for writi
+ng: $!");
    # get the email into a temporary variable
    my $hold = $pop->HeadAndBody($popcount);
    # force it to use binary saving
    $hold =~ s/text\/plain/application\/x-msexcel/g;
    # write to file
    print MAILOUT $hold;
    # close the file
    close MAILOUT;

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And the text-files extracted by MIME::Parser are now saved without extra \r characters added to them.

Cheers for the help! :)
William

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Re^4: Is it possible to force MIME::Parser to extract text-files on a Windows system without the extra CR's on the end of lines?
by Anonymous Monk on Feb 12, 2014 at 04:12 UTC
    $cough->binary(1); ... print ...
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      Not sure what you mean, my anonymous friend. Would you please explain further?

      Cheers,
      William

      PS: Have altered the documentation in my code to be properly clear, now using:

          # change it to use binary extraction when MIME::Parse extracts tex
+t files from the mail message
    $hold =~ s/text\/plain/application\/x-msexcel/g;

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        Not sure what you mean, my anonymous friend. Would you please explain further?

        Can you guess? ... some Body object or something has a mutator called binary that controls whether or not to use newline translation ...

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