Handling Multipart MIME types in an e-mail message

[Hasenmyer]

I'm trying to retrieve messages from a POP3 server using the POP3Client module, and display it via the web (web mail, basically). However, when I get a multi-part message (when Outlook Express for instance sends an html message), I can't get it to only display the html chucnk without *major* pattern matching. Is there a module that I can use to parse the entire message and return the correct part of the message? I looked at the MIME:arser modules, but it looked to only handle parsing to and from files (which doesn't seem very helpful in my case). Is there code that will do this? <br>
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Thanks.<br>
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John

 

[darian]

You were on the right track with the MIME part but in the whole package of the MIME-tools there is a decoder. Try working with that. You can use the URL below to find it at CPAN. I havn't actually used this yet as I am still working on the POP3 part or at least working with folders anyway. Hope this helps.<br>
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<A HREF="

http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MIME-tools"

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http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=MIME-tools</A>

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[Hasenmyer]

Thanks for the help. I've tried the decoder without much luck, though. It creates a zero length file in the main dir (beacuse I don't specify a path to the object), and doesn't do much else. Maybe I just haven't looked at it closely enough yet. I was pretty frustrated with it yesterday.<br>
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However, it sounds like we may be working on a lot of the same stuff... perhaps we could collaborate and speed up our development?