Hi all, I am using Perl's Pop3 module to download email along with Mime::Parser to detach any files into readable formats. I have never seen this before but I am now getting an error message: no decoder for uuencode at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 789 no decoder for uuencode at /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.8/MIME/Parser.pm line 789 Debug shows this for the first time: with cipher DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate I am using pop3 with ssl. Here is my code. 

#---set mail credentials---#
my $_MAILHOST="xxxxx";
my $_USER="xxxx"; #username
my $_PASS="xxxx"; #password

#---Define output directory---#
my $_OUTDIR="/x/xxx/mail/xxx"; #Output attachments here

#---Begin retrieve mail and strip attachment---#
my $i = 0;
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( HOST      =>$_MAILHOST,
                                USER      =>$_USER,
                                PASSWORD  =>$_PASS,
                                DEBUG     =>2,
                                SOCKET => undef, USESSL => 1
);
$parser->output_dir( $_OUTDIR );


if( $pop->Count() < 0 ) {
   die "Error accessing POP mailbox";
}

for( $i = 0; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++ ) {
    my $wholeBody = $pop->HeadAndBody( $i );
     ### Automatically attempt to RFC 2047-decode the MIME headers?
    $parser->decode_headers(0);             ### default is false
    ### Look for uuencode in "text" messages, and extract it?
    $parser->extract_uuencode(0);           ### default is false
    my $entity = $parser->parse_data( $wholeBody );
    #$pop->Delete( $i );
}

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If I pull the mail via Outlook I do not have any issues. Any advise will be appreciated.

In reply to Mime::Parser question. by mmittiga17

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