Hi Monks. I'm using MIME::Parser to parse some emails. I'm trying to get the attached images and all works well until I came across .mac webmail. A mail comes which looks like this 
--Apple-Mail-30--196590585
Content-Disposition: inline;
    filename=moriyama1.gif
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/applefile;
    name="moriyama1.gif"

AAUWBwACAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAIAAAAJAAAAMgAAAAoAAAADAAAAPAAAAA1HSU
+ZmcHJ2
dwEAbW9yaXlhbWExLmdpZg==

--Apple-Mail-30--196590585
Content-Disposition: inline;
    filename=moriyama1.gif
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: image/gif;
    x-mac-creator=70727677;
    x-unix-mode=0644;
    x-mac-type=47494666;
    name="moriyama1.gif"

R0lGODlhZABnALMAAPDv79LR0FJQT66trJGQjykoJ9zb2m9ubebl5aCfnbu5uMfFxIKBfw
+EBAQIC
AgAAACH5BAA [etc...]  

--Apple-Mail-30--196590585--

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Here the parser chokes on the image. Since I have never seen any of the other images with two headers like this, can I assume it is because the mail software is formatting it strangly? If so how can I get the real image which starts with the Content-Type: image/gif ?

My code looks like this. (I know this is not pretty, and I'm open to sugegstions to make it nice, but the thing I really care abotu is just getting the image now)

foreach my $part (@parts) {
        next unless defined $part->head;
        my $head_string = $part->head->as_string;
        next unless $head_string =~ m!text/plain|alternative|image|oct
+et|gif!i;
        my $body_string = $part->bodyhandle->as_string;
        
        my @part = ($head_string, $body_string);
        
        push(@text, \@part)     if $head_string =~ m!text/plain|altern
+ative!i;
        push(@images, \@part)     if $head_string =~ m!image|octet|gif
+!i;
        
    }
    $thing->{'images'}     = \@images;
    $thing->{'text'}     = \@text;
    return($thing);
}

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If I don't have the next statement in there, it dies when the parser failes on thje "application/applefile" header. If I put in the next statement, it skips that header, but also skips the images.

Is there anything I can do about this without having to ditch MIME::Parser (I really really really want it to work with MIME::Parser)

K

In reply to MIME::Parser and applefile by Anonymous Monk

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