I'm trying to write a script that will access a gmail account and locally save the attachments on recent emails. My code below is saving the file when there is a new email with an attachment in the account, however the result is corrupt (I've only been trying with PDFs, but I presume this happens with all filetypes) - the files are partially legible but large parts are simply blank.

Any ideas? 
use Mail::POP3Client;
use Email::MIME;
use Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( 
             USER     => 'user',
             PASSWORD => "password",
             HOST     => "pop.gmail.com",
             USESSL   => 'true',
                 );

print "Status: ". $pop->State()." No of email:". $pop->Count();
if ($pop->Count()) {
 my $mail=$pop->HeadAndBody(1);
 my $parsed = Email::MIME->new($mail);
 my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($parsed);
 my @attachments = $stripper->attachments;
 
    foreach my $att ( @attachments ) {
        open (FILE, ">>" . $att->{filename});
        print FILE $att->{payload};
        close (FILE);
    } 

 
}
$pop->Close();
exit;

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