Hi all,

I am trying to take a MIME email on STDIN and then extract any attatchment and re-assemble them into a fresh message (after I've performed a few tasks on the original irrelevant to this question)

Here is my code that takes a Mail::Internet message and parses it into parts using MIME::Parser. I can get the mime types no probs using $parts[$i]->mime_type but which method do I call to get the file name and data for each part. There seems to be little info in the docs. 
use Mail::Internet;
use MIME::Parser;

$mail = new Mail::Internet \*STDIN;

# Create new parser
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;

# Keep parsed message bodies in core
$parser->output_to_core('ALL');

# Make the Mail::Internet message into an array
@lines = (@{$mail->header}, "\n", @{$mail->body});

# Parse an in-core MIME message
$parser->parse_data(\@lines);

$ent->make_multipart;

@parts = $ent->parts;

foreach my $i ( 0 .. $#parts ) {
   
     print "Part $i ". $parts[$i]->mime_type . "\n\n";
}

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(In the real app the print bit in the above loop would probably be used to add parts to MIME::Lite message or similar!)

Many thanks

Stew

In reply to Carving up MIME email on STDIN by stew

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