Explode(3pm)

NAME

MIME::Explode - Perl extension for explode MIME messages

SYNOPSIS

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";
}

DESCRIPTION

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.

METHODS

new([, OPTION ...])

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"

types_action => "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".

parse(FILEHANDLE, FILEHANDLE)

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.

nmsgs

Returns the number of parsed messages.

clean_all

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

AUTHOR

Henrique Dias <hdias@aesbuc.pt>

CREDITS

Thanks to Rui Castro for the revision.

SEE ALSO

MIME::Tools, perl(1).

perl v5.10.0 2006-06-05 Explode(3pm)