Ray Leventhal wrote:
Issue:
I've been tasked with extracting a bunch of MIME attachments (M$Word
docs) from emails which have been stored in an imap folder in
/home/<username>/mail/<imap foldername>. As the subject states, the
imap folder is about 700MB.
Googling suggested that munpack might do the trick, but as it is
intended only for one message at a time, it outputs the first attachment
found, then exits gracefully.
Further searches seemed to talk about mimedump, so I yum installed
perl-MIME-tools.noarch from rpmforge as mimedump this was needed, and
includes mimedump.
I've read the man page, but am wholly unclear as to:
1) will this do the trick for me
2) are there other known tools which might be recommended
Mime::Parser will split out the body and attachments of a message into
files. I've only used it on single files being delivered via procmail
like this:
use MIME::Parser;
### Create parser, and set some parsing options:
$archive='/path/to/dir';
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
### Change how nameless message-component files are named:
$parser->output_dir("$archive");
$parser->output_prefix('msg');
### Parse input:
$entity = $parser->parse(\*STDIN) or die "parse failed\n";
But you'll probably want to do something a little more clever to toss
the body and use sensible filenames for the attachments. I think
Mime::Parser::Filer can do that.
--
Les Mikesell
lesmikesell@xxxxxxxxx
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