Good Day Monks! Thank You for sharing your wisdom!!!

I am attempting to save an "attachment" from an email. My code saves the present attachment which is a 7-zip file. Alas, when I attempt to open the file with 7-zip, it balks stating the file is not an archive.

I have pieced my code together from the examples I have found. Most examples seem to elaborate on constructing a message. I am wanting to deconstruct a message. :-)

What have I done wrong?

Thank You again for sharing your time and knowledge!!!

glenn

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#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Carp;
use MIME::Parser;
use strict;
use warnings;

my $parser   = MIME::Parser->new( );
$parser->output_under( "tmp" );          #write attachments to disk

my $entity    = $parser->parse(\*STDIN); # die( )s if can't parse

my $header    = $entity->head( );        # object--see docs
my $preamble  = $entity->preamble;       # ref to array of lines
my $epilogue  = $entity->epilogue;       # ref to array of lines
my $num_parts = $entity->parts;
my @parts     = $entity->parts;

#get email headers
my $from      = $header->get('From');
my $to        = $header->get('To');
my $subject   = $header->get('Subject');

chomp( $from );
chomp( $to );
chomp( $subject );


print "           From: $from\n";
print "             To: $to\n";
print "        Subject: $subject\n\n";
print "Number of Parts: $num_parts\n\n";
print "           Head: $header\n";
print "       Preamble: $preamble\n";
print "       Epilogue: $epilogue\n";

print "________________\n\n";

if( $num_parts > 0 ) {                   # more than one part
    my $part;
      
    for $part( @parts ) {                # get mime type
        my $type = $part->mime_type;
        my $bh   = $part->bodyhandle;
        print "MIME Type: $type\n";
        
        my $content .= $bh->as_string if defined $bh;
        
        open( my $OUTFILE, ">", "output.7z" );
        print $OUTFILE "$content";
        close( $OUTFILE );
    };
};
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