I think you're overcomplicating this problem. So here's my final attempt to explain it to you.

MIME messages are hierarchical in nature. That is to say, a MIME message can contain other MIME messages which can, in turn, also contain other MIME messages and so on. So whatever you use to parse a MIME message, can also be used to parse its children.

In fact, MIME::Parser is cleverer than that, if you set the extract_nested_messages flag to 1 (which is the default value, I'm not sure why you changed it in your code) then it will produce a tree structure containing all of the MIME messages contained within your original message. You can see the structure of this tree with the dump_skeleton method and you can get the children of any given MIME message by using the parts method.

So, you've gone as far as getting the top level message in $entity. If you change the nested messages flag to 1 then your entity will contain sub-entities which you can access using $entity->parts. Each of these contained messages will be a MIME::Entity object and you can extract various parts of the message (like the headers) using the methods described in the documentation.

Is that clearer?

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In reply to Re^8: How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox by davorg
in thread How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox by perlCrazy

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