i have written a script that saves the attachments from all unread messages from a gmail account to my hard drive I am doing this by printing the source code of the attachments into a pdf file created during the scripts run. But all of the PDF files are almost completely corrupt (for some reason 1 in around 20 pages in each file are fine the rest are completely blank) Is there another way to do this or a way to programmatically fix the pdf files I have been at this for days and I i still haven't figured out so any help is appreciated thanks in advance.

use strict;
use warnings;

# required modules
use Net::IMAP::Simple;
use Email::MIME;
use IO::Socket::SSL;
use Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper;

# fill in your details here
my $username = 'username@website.com';
my $password = 'password';
my $mailhost = 'imap.gmail.com';

# Connect
my $imap = Net::IMAP::Simple->new(
    $mailhost,
    port    => 993,
    use_ssl => 1,
) || die "Unable to connect to IMAP: $Net::IMAP::Simple::errstr\n";

# Log in
if ( !$imap->login( $username, $password ) ) {
    print STDERR "Login failed: " . $imap->errstr . "\n";
    exit(64);
}
# Look in the the INBOX
my $nm = $imap->select('INBOX');

# How many messages are there?
my ($unseen, $recent, $num_messages) = $imap->status();
print "unseen: $unseen, recent: $recent, total: $num_messages\n\n";

my $filepath = "if you want to test it insert own file path here";

## Iterate through unseen messages
for ( my $i = 1 ; $i <= $nm ; $i++ ) {
    if (!$imap->seen($i) ) {
        next;
    }
    else {
    my $es = Email::MIME->new( join '', @{ $imap->get($i) } );
    #my $es = Email::MIME->new( join '', @{ $imap->top($i) } );
    my $text = $es->body;
    my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($es);
    my @attachments = $stripper->attachments;
    
    printf( "[%03d] %s\n\t%s\n%s", $i, $es->header('From'), $es->heade
+r('Subject'),$text);
    my $l = 0;
    foreach $_(@attachments)
    {
              
              
                 
              
        my $fh = IO::File->new();
        open($fh, '>', "$filepath" . "$_->{filename}");
        print $fh "$_->{payload}\n";
        $fh->close;
    
    
              
              
     
        
     
    
            
    
    
    }
        
}
}

# Disconnect
$imap->quit;

exit;

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