I need to save attachments from emails using Mail::POP3Client. I need to decode base64 files and then save, and other attachments just save them as is. Is there something that I haven't found that does this better than doing it myself? The text file contains the headers for the email, the body of the email, and then for each attachment a small header like these (2 attachments): 
--Apple-Mail-16--694122637
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Type: application/pdf;
        x-unix-mode=0644;
        name="bus-schedule.pdf"
Content-Disposition: inline;
        filename=some-file.pdf
(then base64 code here)

--Apple-Mail-18--693549197
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Type: application/octet-stream;
        x-mac-type=2A2A2A2A;
        x-unix-mode=0644;
        x-mac-creator=48647261;
        name="somefilename"
Content-Disposition: attachment;
        filename=somefilename
(then the file is here)

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Here is my POP3Client script that right now returns the subject and from, and saves the whole email as a file. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Mail::POP3Client;
use MIME::Parser;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( USER     => "email\@mydomain.com",
                               PASSWORD => "mypassword",
                               HOST     => "mail.mydomain.com" );
my $i;
for( $i = 111; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++ ) {
  foreach( $pop->Head( $i ) ) {
    /^(From|Subject):\s+/i && print $_, "\n";
my $dir = '/some/folder/somewhere/attachments';

     my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
     my $io = new IO::File;
     if ($io->open( "> $dir/raw-message.$i")) {
       $pop->HeadAndBodyToFile( $io, $i );
       $io->close;
       print "Parsing $dir/raw-message.$i...\n";
       $parser->parse( IO::File->new( "$dir/raw-message.$i") );
     }


  }
}
$pop->Close();

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Can anyone advise? I need to be able to handle multiple files too, and pretty much any type of attachment.

Thanks in advance!

-Michael Jensen
michael@inblosam.com

In reply to Saving attachments from email files by inblosam

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