HI, I'm stumped on how to resolve this issue. I have an email parser which uses MIME:Parser. It works most of the time but sometimes with some emails I get behaviour which seems to be unintended. 
$parser = MIME::Parser->new( );
$parser->ignore_errors(1);
$parser->extract_uuencode(1);
$parser->extract_nested_messages(1);
$parser->output_to_core(1); # don't write attachments to disk


my $tmpMessage = $parser->parse_data($body);
my $tmp_num_parts = $tmpMessage->parts;

                        for (my $ii=0; $ii < $tmp_num_parts; $ii++)
                        {
                                my $tmp_part = $tmpMessage->parts($i);
                                my $tmp_content_type = $tmp_part->mime
+_type;
                                my $tmp_body = $tmp_part->as_string;

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Sometimes this works: A) 

if ($tmp_body =~ /Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64/i)
                                        {
                                                $MessageBody = "  ". $
+tmp_part->bodyhandle->as_string;
                                        }

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and sometimes this works: B) 

if ($tmp_body =~ /Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64/i)
                                        {
                                                $MessageBody = "  ". d
+ecode('UTF-8',decode_base64($tmp_part->bodyhandle->as_string));
                                        }

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What I am finding difficult to figure out is how do I handle both cases gracefully. Afaict it is one or the other without some hideous method to check if the text is somehow readable for a human.

In reply to MIME::Parser parse_data by boosth

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