The only thing I'm trying to do is take files that have been zipped and emailed to me, and save them in a folder on my server.
I've got the following hodgepodge of copy/pasted/glued code, but haven't been able to figure out how to finish the part where the attachment is saved.
Is there an easier way to do this? A search of the CPAN modules didn't pan out.
    use Net::IMAP::Simple;
    use Email::Simple;
    use Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper;

    my $username = "user";
    my $password= "pass";

    my $server = Net::IMAP::Simple->new( 'server' );

    $server->login( $username,$password) || warn "Bad login!\n";
    
    my $nmessages = $server->select( 'inbox' );
    $number_of_messages = $nmessages;

    foreach my $msg ( 1 .. $number_of_messages ) {
        if ($server->seen( $msg )){
#            print "This message has been read before...\n";
        }
        else
        {
            print "New!";
            my $email = Email::Simple->new( join '', @{$server->get( $
+msg )} );
            my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($msg
+);
            my Email::MIME $msg = $stripper->message;
#my attachments = ..;  This returns a list of all the attachments we f
+ound in the message, as a hash of { filename, content_type, payload }
+.
            my @attachments       = $stripper->attachments;
            
#           print $email->header('Subject'), "\n";
#            $data = $email->body, "\n";
#            print $data;
#            print "\n";
        }
    }
    wend;
    $server->quit();

exit;

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