If you want the parts to be written to disk you should not have $parser->output_to_core(1). This tells the parser to write all the decoded data to in-core data structures. By default (if you leave this out) the parts are written to disk.

If your message is in a scalar variable (e.g. $message), rather than being read from a file handle, you can use $parser->parse_data($message).

Something like:

use strict;
use warnings;
use MIME::Parser;


my $message = do { local $/; <DATA>; };

my $parser = MIME::Parser->new();
$parser->output_under("/tmp");
#$parser->output_to_core(1);
$parser->parse_data($message) or die "parse failed\n";


__DATA__
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary="frontier"

This is a message with multiple parts in MIME format.
--frontier
Content-Type: text/plain

This is the body of the message.
--frontier
Content-Type: application/octet-stream
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64

PGh0bWw+CiAgPGhlYWQ+CiAgPC9oZWFkPgogIDxib2R5PgogICAgPHA+VGhpcyBpcyB0aG
+Ug
Ym9keSBvZiB0aGUgbWVzc2FnZS48L3A+CiAgPC9ib2R5Pgo8L2h0bWw+Cg==
--frontier--

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