I'm using Mail::Box and friends to find all the image/jpeg bodies in an mbox file.

Does anyone know of a handy way to take such a body and write it to a .jpg file? I have written it out as text and was going to use C for the .jpg, but looking at the original data in the mbox I'm realizing this is not a binary stream such as you would get with a normal HTTP response -- the values are all valid ascii, ie. this is not normative jpeg data.

Strangely, I can't find anything out about that googling either. Anyone know anything?

SOLVED
Okay, it's encoded in base64 -- for posterity: 
use Mail::Box::Manager;
use MIME::Base64::Perl;

[...]
my $msg = $folder->message(0);
if ($msg->isMultipart) {
    my @parts = $msg->parts;
    foreach (@parts) {
        if ($_->contentType eq "image/jpeg") {
                    (my $body = $_->body) =~ s/\n//g;
                    my $jpg = decode_base64($body);
                }
        }
}

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$jpg can be written straight to a .jpg file.

Whew!

In reply to grabbing jpg from mbox [SOLVED] by halfcountplus

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