Dear Perl Monks, I seek your wisdom (and patience)

I've included my current work below. It's a basic attempt to get mail and parse the MIME attachments. I can get the email without problems using the Mail::POP3Client. I am attempting to send the header and body of each message to the MIME Parser and save the resulting parsed text and files. When I run the script, a number of folders are created in the output directory, but with zero contents.

In other examples I've seen using MIME::Parser there seems to be an object (forgive me if it's called by another name) called $parser->parts, but I can't find it defined in the MIME::Tools (or MIME::Parser) documentation. My first probably is probably not knowing what "\*STDIN" represents. I know STDIN, but I don't want to be manually piping something to the script; I want to work with strings I already have in the script.

Your wisdom is much appriciated.

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
## import modules
use lib '/Users/squiddy/sandbox/lib/';
use Mail::POP3Client;
use MIME::Parser;
## create a new MIME parser object
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_under("/Users/squiddy/sandbox/mailtemp/");
$parser->output_to_core(1);
###### code removed for simplicity #########
## get mail
$pop = new Mail::POP3Client( USER     => "squiddy",
                             PASSWORD => "notmypw",
                             HOST     => "pop3.squiddy.com",
                 USESSL   => true );
###### code removed for simplicity #########
## loop through each item on the POP3 server
for ($i = 1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++) {
    ## get the unique email UIDL (out of a returned string "N XXXXXXX"
+)
    $mailnum = $pop->Uidl($i);
    @maildat = split(" ",$mailnum);
    $mailnum = $maildat[1];
    # print "$mailnum\n";
    ## if it doesn't already exist in the database
    if (exists $hash{$mailnum}) { 
        # print "nothing here\n";
    } else {
###### code removed for simplicity #########
        ## get email body
        $emailmessage = $pop->HeadAndBody($i);
###### code removed for simplicity #########
        ## output the MIME parts
        $entity = $parser->parse($emailmessage) or die "parse failed\n
+";
        }
}
## close the connection
$pop->close();
###### code removed for simplicity #########

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