Hi.. Still writting the "free e-mails" script, I'm in the delivery part.

I have a script that gets all the mail from STDIN, that delivers the mail to a mysql database. I have 2 questions/problems with the attachments:

- I found a lot of modules with nice examples that show how to create and send an e-mail with an attachment, but I can't find anything to get get the mime parts and save them on files or something. The closest I found was Mime::parser, but I don't understan the documentation.. :) Can anyone suggest somthing, or post examples?
- Attachments could be really big, so I don't want to use the script's memory to hold the file. I think the modules send everything to a temp file, but how would I send that temp file to the database without storing everithing on a temp. variable? (is there a "binary" data type on mysql, or something like that?)

Thanks!

In reply to dealing with attachments (again) by Punto

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