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:
- will this do the trick for me
- 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.