Hello, I am having this strange issue where using MIME:Parser (my version is activestate 5.8.8), some mime emails containing an image are decoded perfectly, BUT some others are not !

Any help WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED !!!

* Here the problematic email: www.biospring.com/email

* Here is the problematic image output, both what it should be, and what MIME::Parser does to the image: www.biospring.com/email/emailimages.html

* Here is the code (just want to extract the email text body and any images): 

sub parse {
use MIME::Parser;
my $dir = "c:\\tmp\\parsedemails";
if (not -d $dir) {
     mkdir $dir or die "Can't create directory $dir: $!\n";
}
### Create a new parser object:
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;

### Tell it where to put things:
$parser->output_under($dir);

### Open the file:
open my $fh, '<', $fileopen or die "Can't read $filopen: $!\n";
### Parse an input filehandle:
my $entity = $parser->parse($fh);
# $entity->dump_skeleton;
$path = "c:\\tmp\\parsedemails";
opendir(DIR, $path);
@lines = readdir(DIR);
closedir(DIR);
### the last directory name, is the name of the newly most recently cr
+eated directory by Mail::Parser
$directory = $lines[$#lines];
Print "DIR  $directory END ";
$pathdir = $path."\\".$directory;
opendir(DIR, $pathdir) or die "can't opendir $pathdir: $!";
while (defined($file = readdir(DIR))) {
    push @files, $file;
    # Print " FILE $file END"."\n";
}
closedir(DIR);
} # end sub

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In reply to MIME: Parser image decode sometimes doesnt work by gmarstead

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