Found some code that strips out the attachments and writes them as files. I tried it on 2 test files, one with 3 parts, another with about 15 parts. In both cases the script wrote out the attachments correctly. Here is that code with a 'print' added .. 

use Email::MIME;
use Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper;
use File::Slurp qw(slurp write_file);

my $infile  = '/home/******/Mail/.family.directory/1280915907.6583.I9x
+0z:2,S';
my $m = Email::MIME->new( scalar slurp $infile );
my $s = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new( $m, 'force_filename' =
+> 1 );

print $s->message;  #displays "Email::MIME=HASH(0xe0fca8)"

foreach my $attachment ( $s->attachments ) {
write_file( $attachment->{filename},
{ buf_ref => \$attachment->{payload} } )
or die "Can't write $attachment->{filename}: $!\n";
}

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It displays - Email::MIME=HASH(0xe0fca8) How do I get the contents of part one into a variable so that I can them extract the email addresses please ?

In reply to Re^6: extracting name & email address by peterr
in thread extracting name & email address by peterr

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