I have been trying to write a small email parsing filter. Here is the how it should work:
  1. server recieves email and pipes it to the email filter
  2. the filter strips the to, from, subject and body from the email.
  3. if the body is of type mime, it is decoded and any attachments can be saved to a local directory.
  4. a response email is generated notifying the sender it their email was received and then the original email is simple sent to /dev/null. no need to save it locally.
I have been attempting to use Email::Filter... so far, I have it able to receive the email, send a response using Mail::Sendmail and then dump the message to /dev/null. So far so good. Here is my problem, i can't get it to write to a log file and i have been trying to figure out how to parse the body and save files locally. (for example, an jpeg image). Here is my lil code so far: 
use Email::Filter;
use Mail::Sendmail;

BEGIN {
    $mail = Email::Filter->new();
    $mail->exit(0);
}

my $to = $mail->to;
my $from = $mail->from;
my $subject = $mail->subject;
my $body = $mail->body;

open (LOG, qq|>>MAIL.txt|);
print LOG qq|TO => $to\n|;
print LOG qq|FROM => $from\n|;
print LOG qq|SUBJECT => $subject\n|;
print LOG qq|BODY => $body\n|;
close (LOG);


END {
    my %hash = (
        to => $from
        , from => 'foo@bar.com'
        , subject => 'Mail recieved'
        , body => 'Your message has been received'
        , smtp => 'foobar.com'
        );
    open(ERROR, qq|>>ERROR.txt|);
    sendmail(%hash) or print ERROR qq|Couldn't send mail... $!\n|;

    #uncomment following lines for debugging only
    print ERROR qq|$Mail::Sendmail::error \n|;
    print ERROR qq|\$Mail::Sendmail::log says:\n$Mail::Sendmail::log\n
+|;
    close (ERROR);
    
    $mail->exit(1);
    $mail->accept('/dev/null');
}

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any suggestions?

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