MIME::Explode - Perl extension for explode MIME messages

  use MIME::Explode;

  my $explode = MIME::Explode->new(
    output_dir         => "tmp",
    mkdir              => 0755,
    decode_subject     => 1,
    check_content_type => 1,
    content_types      => ["image/gif", "image/jpeg", "image/bmp"],
    types_action       => "exclude"
  );

  print "Number of messages: ", $explode->nmsgs, "\n";

  open(MAIL, "<file.mbox") or
        die("Couldn't open file.mbox for reading: $!\n");
  open(OUTPUT, ">file.tmp")
        or die("Couldn't open file.tmp for writing: $!\n");
  my $headers = $explode->parse(\*MAIL, \*OUTPUT);
  close(OUTPUT);
  close(MAIL);

  for my $part (sort{ $a cmp $b } keys(%{$headers})) {
    for my $k (keys(%{$headers->{$part}})) {
      if(ref($headers->{$part}->{$k}) eq "ARRAY") {
        for my $i (0 .. $#{$headers->{$part}->{$k}}) {
          print "$part => $k => $i => ", $headers->{$part}->{$k}->[$i], "\n";
        }
      } elsif(ref($headers->{$part}->{$k}) eq "HASH") {
        for my $ks (keys(%{$headers->{$part}->{$k}})) {
          if(ref($headers->{$part}->{$k}->{$ks}) eq "ARRAY") {
            print "$part => $k => $ks => ", join(($ks eq "charset") ? " " : "", @{$headers->{$part}->{$k}->{$ks}}), "\n";
          } else {
            print "$part => $k => $ks => ", $headers->{$part}->{$k}->{$ks}, "\n";
          }
          print "$part => $k => $ks => ", $headers->{$part}->{$k}->{$ks}, "\n";
        }
      } else {
        print "$part => $k => ", $headers->{$part}->{$k}, "\n";
      }
    }
  }

  if(my $e = $explode->clean_all()) {
    print "Error: $e\n";
  }

MIME::Explode is perl module for parsing and decoding single or multipart MIME messages, and outputting its decoded components to a given directory ie, this module is designed to allows users to extract the attached files out of a MIME encoded email messages or mailboxes.

This method create a new MIME::Explode object. The following keys are available:

output_dir

Directory where the decoded files are placed

mkdir => octal_number

If the value is set to octal number then make the output_dir directory (example: mkdir => 0755).

check_content_type => 0 or 1

If the value is set to 1 the content-type of file is checked

decode_subject => 0 or 1

If the value is set to 1 then the subject is decoded into a list.

  $header->{'0.0'}->{subject}->{value} = [ARRAYREF];
  $header->{'0.0'}->{subject}->{charset} = [ARRAYREF];
  $subject = join("", @{$header->{'0.0'}->{subject}->{value}});

exclude_types => [ARRAYREF]

Not save files with specified content types (deprecated in next versions)

content_types => [ARRAYREF]

Array reference with content types for include or exclude If the action is a include, all attached files with specified content types are saved but if the action is a exclude, no files are saved except if its in the array of content types. If no array is specified, but the action is a include, all attached files are saved, otherwise all files are removed if action is a exclude. The default action is include.

This method parse the stream and splits it into its component entities. This method return a hash reference with all parts. The FILEHANDLE should be a reference to a GLOB. The second argument is optional.

Returns the number of parsed messages.

Cleans all files from the output_dir directory and then removes the directory. If an error happens returns it.

Henrique Dias <hdias@aesbuc.pt>

Thanks to Rui Castro for the revision.

MIME::Tools, perl(1).