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Excellent, thanx for the help, this will avoid problems, when building the script (headerstuff, etc.). Still unsolved is the fact from grepping the data from the file. Let me explain:
Assumed you already can handle each mail in the mailboxfile, now there is a mail which contains a jpg attachement, which is, indeed part of the bodytext and identified by boundaries and here comes the trick: How to read *only* the attachement data from the file?


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Re: Re: avoid temporary files when building a webmailer
by mischief (Hermit) on Nov 15, 2001 at 19:09 UTC
    You might want to have a look at the MIME modules on CPAN. They should do what you want.
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      I have looked at Mime::Tools to get an impression of the mime-tools. At the first look it seemed nice, it gives a nice surface to get access to all parts of the mail.
      But, unfortunately, I have found the following:

      ..."Use of a temp file during parsing

      Why not do everything in core? Although the amount of core available on even a modest home system continues to grow, the size of attachments continues to grow with it. I wanted to make sure that even users with small systems could deal with decoding multi-megabyte sounds and movie files. That means not being core-bound."...



      This exactly bypasses my goal, *not* to create a tempfile. BTW, there is no need to show multi-megabyte files in whatever audio or videoformats for my needs... a picture with maxsize 800x600 or so will be the top size.

      Thanx for the advice, but this is a special case, any ideas left?


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