This code saves email messages and attachments using MIME::Parse. The text body of the message is saved as a string +number like **msg-6108-1.txt**

How do I find out what this file is going to be named? I'd like to prefix the file attachment name with this name so I can match the message to the attachments when I process the folder contents on the server using cron at a later time.

this is currently saving files like this:

msg-6108-1.txt
fileattachment.pdf

I'd like to save something like this:

msg-6108-1.txt
msg-6108-1-fileattachment.pdf

    #!/usr/bin/perl

    use Net::IMAP::Simple::SSL;
    use MIME::Parser;

    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

    $server = new Net::IMAP::Simple::SSL('xxx');
    $server->login('xxx','xxx');


    my $newm=0;
       $newm = $server->select('INBOX');

    if ($newm==0) {
      $server->quit();
      print "No New Messages.";
      exit;
      }

    my $outputdir = "./temp";
    my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
    $parser->output_dir($outputdir);


    for (my $i = 1; $i <= $newm; $i++) {

      my $entity = $parser->parse($server->getfh($i));
      my $from = $entity->head->get('From');
      my $subject = $entity->head->get('Subject');
      my $timestamp = $entity->head->get('Date');

      print "#$i $from / $subject / $timestamp<br />";

      for my $part ($entity->parts()) {
        print " / ".$part->mime_type;
        if ( $part->mime_type eq 'application/octet-stream' || $part->
+mime_type eq 'application/pdf' ) {
          my $filename = $part->bodyhandle->path;
          print " / $filename";
          }
        print "<br />";
        }
      $server->copy($i,'dump');
      $server->delete($i);
      }
    $server->quit();

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In reply to MIME::Parser Customize Attachment Naming Convention by DST609

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