I created a Perl script to file incoming e-mails in our task management system using Email::MIME. For the most part it has been working well, but I hit a problem recently where the text attachment was filed instead of the text body of the e-mail. It only occurred from one client and doesn't occur when I try to reproduce it. 
    if ($parsed->xpath_exists('//plain')) {
      @nodes = $parsed->xpath_findnodes('//plain');
      $text_part = $nodes[0];
      $body=$text_part->body;
    }

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The e-mail had two text parts, but I can't figure out why it didn't select the first in this case. Message (without headers and HTML) 
--=_mixed 007E16738825776F_=
Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="=_alternative 007E16738
+825776F_="

--=_alternative 007E16738825776F_=
Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII"

This was the body text

--=_alternative 007E16738825776F_=--
--=_mixed 007E16738825776F_=
Content-Type: text/plain; name="6014969_S02500.txt"
Content-Disposition: attachment; filename="6014969_S02500.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable

This is a text file attachment

--=_mixed 007E16738825776F_=--

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Any ideas would be greatly appreciated. Let me know if you need more code or more of the data.

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