Have been trying to create a script to strip an email of all binary attachments. The test email has 25 parts, encompassing 24 photos as attachments, which leaves the email headers and the first 'part', the plain text body. 

#!/usr/bin/env perl
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;

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

my $infile  = '/home/****/Mail/.family.directory/1277709595.16641.pRLS
+b:2,S';
my $outfile = 'output4.txt';

my $intext = File::Slurp::read_file( $infile );
my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($intext);

my $email_mime = $stripper->message;
print $email_mime;    # displays "Email::MIME=HASH(0x1601e60)"
my @emails = Email::Address->parse( $email_mime );

File::Slurp::write_file( $outfile, join("\n", @emails) );    # no outp
+ut ?

my $parsed = Email::MIME->new($intext);
#print "Parsed content :\n". Dumper( $parsed) . "\n";

my $parts = $parsed->parts;
print "Number of email parts : $parts\n";    # displays "Number of ema
+il parts : 25"

my @parts = $parsed->parts;

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

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The code just above (the "write_file")works okay, and all 24 photos are extracted and written to disk. But the part I want to process is the email headers plus the first part. Have been looking at the docs for this module, and it seems all I have to do is .. 

my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($intext);
my $email_mime = $stripper->message;

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to get the message part. I can't get it to extract the first part, the 'message' though. Have even downloaded the source for this module; the sub 'message' does a 'detach_all. Any clues please ?

In reply to Stripping emails of attachments by peterr

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