Greetings Great Minds!

I'm creating a script that will read the incoming mail, get the attachments and save
each of those attachments along with the content in a seperate files.
The following snippet gets the attachments and dumps the contents in a single file. This not what I need.
If the incoming mail has three attachments, then the script should create three files for each of the attachment(s) along with the content.

The attachments may contain images/text and may be of type text/html.
Can anyone let me know how to achieve that.
#!/usr/bin/perl 

use MIME::Parser;
use Data::Dumper;

parse_email();

sub parse_email {
  my $dir = "/tmp/attachments";
  
  my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
  $parser->output_dir($dir);
  my $entity = $parser->read(\*STDIN) || die "couldn't parse MIME stre
+am";
  my $head = $entity->head;
  my $content = $head->as_string . "\n";

  my @parts = $entity->parts;
  my $body = $entity->bodyhandle;

  $content .= $body->as_string if defined $body;
  my $part;
  for $part (@parts) {
    my $path = ($part->bodyhandle) ? $part->bodyhandle->path : undef;
  }

return $content;
}

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In reply to Saving all email attachments into various files. by chanakya

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