I must have read davorg's mind. To follow on from his suggestion you could try something like: 

use strict;
use warnings;
                                                                      
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use Email::MIME;
use Email::Folder::Mbox;
                                                                      
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my $box = Email::Folder::Mbox->new('/home/jonathan/mail/spam');
while ( my $mail = $box->next_message )
{
   my $mess = Email::MIME->new($mail);
                                                                      
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   foreach my $part ($mess->parts())
   {
      if ($part->content_type() =~ /image/i )
      {
         open OUT, ">",  "tmp/" .$part->filename or next;
         print OUT $part->body();
         close OUT;
      }
   }
                                                                      
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}

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You might find this noisy if you have broken MIME messages in your mailbox (like I have in the collection of spam above). In real life you might want to be a bit more defensive as to how you use the filename from the message.

/J\

In reply to Re: Extracting MIME Encoded pictures from email by gellyfish
in thread Extracting MIME Encoded pictures from email by jmaya

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