The fragments of code below have been taken from one of my upcoming Perl articles which deals with something similar:

   47   my $mp = new MIME::Parser;
   48   $mp->ignore_errors(1);
   49   $mp->extract_uuencode(1);
   50   
   51   eval { $e = $mp->parse($fh); };
   52   my $error = ($@ || $mp->last_error);
   53   
   54   if ($error)
   55   {
   56       $mp->filer->purge;          # Get rid of the temp files
   57       die "Error parsing the message: $error\n";
   58   }

        decode_entities($e);

  103   sub decode_entities
  104   {
  105       my $ent = shift;
  106   
  107       if (my @parts = $ent->parts)
  108       {
  109           decode_entities($_) for @parts;
  110       }
  111       elsif (my $body = $ent->bodyhandle)
  112       {
  113           my $type = $ent->head->mime_type;
  114   
  115           setup_decoder($ent->head);
  116   
  117           if ($type eq 'text/plain')
  118           { print d($body->as_string); }
  119           elsif ($type eq 'text/html')
  120           { $parser->parse($body->as_string); }
  121           else
  122           { print "[Unhandled part of type $type]"; }
  123       }
  124   }

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I'm sorry for not providing a direct link to the article, but I don't want to risk Google picking it up before publishing at TPJ :) You would need to rewrite the decode_entities() function to work with all the attachments. I haven't tested, but I would bet you can get to the attachment's payload using the ->as_string method.

Best regards

-lem, but some call me fokat

In reply to Re: Win2K MIME Decoding by fokat
in thread Win2K MIME Decoding by Anonymous Monk

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