Reading e-mail attachment from a webmail

[vgy]

Hi
I'll try to explain my trouble.
I have to read the mail with a browser.
These mail are only mail error return:
"Delivery Status Notification (Failure)"
or
"Mail Delivery System -->Undelivered Mail Returned to Sender"
and any kind of error return.
All of these mails contains 2 attachment file.
the first file is
"Reporting-MTA: dns; jjj.xxx.yyyyyyy.zz
X-Mail-Service-Queue-ID: 52C1DB98D9
X-Mail-Service-Sender: rfc822; [e-mail]
Arrival-Date: Wed, 26 Sep 2007 08:43:24 +0200 (CEST)

Final-Recipient: rfc822; [e-mail]
Original-Recipient: rfc822;[e-mail]
Action: failed
Status: 5.7.1
Remote-MTA: dns; mx.xxxx.yy
Diagnostic-Code: smtp; 550 5.7.1 Unable to relay for [e-mail]
the second contains the original message.
I need to read these file for parsing and extract information from. What module can I use?
Any suggestion are welcome

[almut]

The exact procedure probably depends a lot on the webmail service provider and/or webmail software... Most of them require you to go through several hoops (i.e. pages, dialog boxes, etc.) to download the attachment. WWW::Mechanize would probably be a good start to automatize the steps.

But before going into that, have you made sure that you really can't access the mail in any other way, e.g. POP3 or IMAP?

[rdfield]

It depends on what access you have: I use Net::POP3 quite successfully to process mail programmatically. If the mailboxes aren't fronted by a POP3 server, it would be of no use, though.

[vgy]

I use the POP3
I have seen the Net::POP3 module
but can't extract the attachment file

[almut]

I use the POP3
I have seen the Net::POP3 module

It's always a good idea to include important details right from the start... :)

but can't extract the attachment file

Same here. What exactly is the problem? Is the attachment missing entirely? Are you unable to decode its transfer encoding (e.g. base64), etc.? Could you provide some complete (but short) raw example message, and possibly also some actual code, so we have an idea of what you've tried so far, and where you're stuck?

[jethro]

WWW:Mechanize is probably what you want. But if that doesn't work then you should think about forwarding these emails to somewhere were you have file or pop access