Any chance anyone can fill in the missing chunk at the bottom where it says Attachment Parse Here?

You can, I'll show you how

Use Data::Dump::dd( $client->message_string($seqno ); to get sample data to get your parsing program ( How do I post a question effectively? ), no need to actually connect to your account multiple times until you figure this out :)

Then, since you've chosen MIME::Parser, you go to MIME::Parser, then up to http://search.cpan.org/~dskoll/MIME-tools-5.502/, then http://search.cpan.org/~dskoll/MIME-tools-5.502/MANIFEST and find mimeexplode

Then you use File::Temp to create a temporary working directory, or you specify one in ~home (File::HomeDir, File::UserConfig), and use IPC::Run3 to call and give mimeexplode your $email_string, and then use File::Find::Rule::Image or glob to query your working directory for new files, and maybe use mimetype (or File::Type ) to make sure you don't miss an unknown image

All the better distributions have samples ready for easy copy/paste, you can find others with site:perlmonks.org mimetype, site:perlmonks.org mimeexplode, site:perlmonks.org IPC::Run3

Does that help?

In reply to Re: Attachment Extraction from Imap by Anonymous Monk
in thread Attachment Extraction from Imap by ecuguru

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