<snip> >>> Hi Les, >>> >>> Thanks for your reply. >>> >>> I'm wholly ignorant of how to go about doing this using your >>> suggestion. Are there resources to which you might point me for >>> additional info? >> >> That was the whole perl program needed to split the body of a message >> and any MIME attachments into separate files, given one email message >> on standard input. If that doesn't make sense, you'll probably have >> to start with the 'learning perl' book or any general perl >> programming tutorials. There are some details about the Mime::Tools >> package and how to use the components here: >> http://search.cpan.org/~doneill/MIME-tools/ >> > Thanks, Les. I'm digging into the docs now. > Solution was easier than I'd expected. I implemented Les' perl mime extractor script with slight mods so that on a go-forward, this will happen without intervention. For the 700MB imap folder of historical docs, I used a thunderbird add-on called 'extract attachments' which does just what it says. Got over 1300 docs in less than 10 mins simply by subscribing to the folder and running the add-on. Thanks for the script and docs pointer, Les. -Ray