You are parsing data incorrectly (try long lines or lines starting with "--" to get a bunch of email-control characters.

Use Mail::Message to get attachments out of the email and manipulate mime types better.

use Mail::Message;
my $fromline = <STDIN>;
my $msg = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN);

if($msg->isMultipart) {
  for($msg->body->parts) {
    open(my $tofile,">/tmp/filename")
      or die "Error opening tmpfile: $!";

    $_->print($tofile);

    close $tofile;

    # print
  }
}

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As you might guess, multiple attachments are also handled correctly.

In reply to Re: email parsing problem? by holo
in thread email parsing problem? by Octavian

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