in reply to Re^3: How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox
in thread How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Mail::POP3Client;
use MIME::Parser;

#usage() unless scalar @ARGV == 3;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( HOST        => 'server',
                                USER        => 'my',
                                PASSWORD    => 'pass' );

my $tmp_directory = "/tmp/attach";
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_dir($tmp_directory);
$parser->output_prefix("attachment");
$parser->output_to_core();
open (FH,">>/tmp/msgtxt");
for (my $i = 1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++){
  my $head = $pop->Head($i);
  if ($head =~ /X-MS-Has-Attach: yes/i){

        foreach ( $pop->Head( $i ) ) {
                if( /^(From|Subject):\s+/i ) {
                        if ( /Vincent/) {
                                my $msg = $pop->HeadAndBody($i);
                                if ($msg =~/^To: /) {
                                        print FH " $msg \n";
                                }
                                my $entity = $parser->parse_data($msg)
+;
                        }
                }
        }
#        print "\n";

  }
}

close(FH);

$pop->Close();

sub usage {
    print "Usage: $0 <mail_server> <username> <password>\n";
    exit;
}

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Above is updated code, it stores almost all attachment according to condition.
Now I need to parse thos attachment and find the header from that attachment.
Ex: In all attachment "To" address will be 'hotmail address'.
Is there any way to get all hotmail addresses from that header inside attachment. Thnks

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Re^5: How to parse outlook type attachment from inbox
by jdtoronto (Prior) on Sep 22, 2006 at 17:01 UTC
    OK perlCrazy,

    Time to back up here a little. Two questions:

    • Why are you trying to parse header information from attachments?
    • Why are you using proprietary headers rather than standard ones (X-MS-Has-Attach for example)?
    Maybe if you told us what exactly you are trying to achieve it would make it easier for all of us.

    jdtoronto

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      Why are you trying to parse header information from attachments?

      There are 50k emails are lyin in inbox all emails has come from one email address(ex: staff@lastminute.com) and each email
      is coming from end customer as attachment that is
      containing sender address that will be hotmail address. Now all attachmnet it self is a mail that is why i need to p
      arse header so i can get those email address.

      Why are you using proprietary headers rather than standard ones (X-MS-Has-Attach for example)?

      I opened the outlook options and found that all attachment information is like this only,
      that is why i checked that condition. and it is storing all attachment OK. But i need to get the header info from attachment
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        #!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use Mail::POP3Client;
use MIME::Parser;
use MIME::Head;

use Mail::Header;

#usage() unless scalar @ARGV == 3;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( HOST        => 'server',
                                USER        => 'my',
                                PASSWORD    => 'pass' );

my $tmp_directory = "/tmp/attach";
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_dir($tmp_directory);
$parser->output_prefix("attachment");
$parser->output_to_core();
open (FH,">>/tmp/msgtxt1");
for (my $i = 1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++){
  my $head = $pop->Head($i);
  if ($head =~ /X-MS-Has-Attach: yes/i){

        foreach ( $pop->Head( $i ) ) {
                if( /^(From|Subject):\s+/i ) {
                        if ( /Vincent/) {
                                my $msg = $pop->HeadAndBody($i);
                                ### Automatically attempt to RFC-1522-
+decode the MIME headers?
                                $parser->decode_headers(1);           
+  ### default is false

                                ### Parse contained "message/rfc822" o
+bjects as nested MIME streams?
                                $parser->extract_nested_messages(0);  
+  ### default is true

                                ### Look for uuencode in "text" messag
+es, and extract it?
                                $parser->extract_uuencode(1);         
+  ### default is false

                                ### Should we forgive normally-fatal e
+rrors?
                                $parser->ignore_errors(0);            
+  ### default is true
                                my $entity = $parser->parse_data($msg)
+;

                        }
                }
        }
#        print "\n";

  }
}

close(FH);

$pop->Close();

sub usage {
    print "Usage: $0 <mail_server> <username> <password>\n";
    exit;
}

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        Above code does save all attachment. Now I need to parse those attachment
        One of the attachment will be .msg file that contains header einfo etc.
        I need to extarct those header info and find the sender address.
        Can somebody help me in this.
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