You are using POP3 client code to get the emails from the server. So you can get the sender information from teh headers. The attachments may or may not include the full header information and are, therefore, an unreliable source of information. Amongst the attachments you get that way will also be any non-message attachments such as images and other documents - so trying to parse the attachments assumes you also can determine what the attachments are.

POP3 does not embrace the concept of folders. That is something that belongs to the world of IMAP and Microsoft Outlook. If you are truly needing to work with IMAP then maybe you should be using something like IMAP::Client or Email::Folder::IMAP - neither of which I have used.

jdtoronto

In reply to Re^3: How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox by jdtoronto
in thread How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox by perlCrazy

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