Dear Monks,

I know there is something very basic that your deep knowledge and wisdom will see immediately. I am a broken and imperfect vessel and cannot see. Please help me.

I get many emails with attachments to a user account that need automated extracting on a regular basis. They come in at irregular times, and the mail gets checked 1x/month or so. I have not used MIME::Parser before, and wrote the following:

use MIME::Parser;


$mailfile = "$mailspool/[username]";

  $parser = new MIME::Parser;
  $head = new MIME::Head;

open(IN, "$mailfile");
$parser->output_under("$basedir/INCOMING");
$entity = $parser->parse(\*IN);

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This works nicely, but only for the first message in the mailbox. The attachments of that message get saved and the program exits. How do I keep it going through all the messages in the mail spool?

I thank you for your kind assistance.

In reply to mime parser multiple emails by jjoerg

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