This script should do what you want. I looked at several modules trying to find one that does everything, but lately I find that most mail related modules do one or two very specific things well, but for anything but the simplest tasks end up using more than one to get the job done. In this case, Mail::POP3Client is a good POP3 access tool but MIME::Parser is hard to beat for saving attachments to disk:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::POP3Client;
use MIME::Parser;

my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client(
                 USER     => "user",
                 PASSWORD => "password",
                 HOST     => "pop3.server"
);

## for HeadAndBodyToFile() to use
my $fh = new IO::Handle();

## Initialize stuff for MIME::Parser;
my $outputdir = "./mimemail";
my $parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_dir($outputdir);

my $i;
## process all messages in pop3 inbox
for ($i = 1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++) {
   open (MAILOUT, ">pop3.msg$i");
   $fh->fdopen( fileno( MAILOUT ), "w" );
   ## write current msg to file
   $pop->HeadAndBodyToFile( $fh, $i );
   close MAILOUT;
   ## MIME::Parser handles only one msg at-a-time
   open (MAILIN, "<pop3.msg$i");
   ## flush all attachments this msg to ./mimemail dir using internal 
+filename
   my $entity = $parser->read(\*MAILIN);
   close MAILIN;
}
[download]

BTW, this was done hastily and could use more error testing, could probably be done more simply/elegantly, but I leave that for the poster.

Does anyone know how to read the messages directly to MIME::Parser without having to write the intermediate files first? I've encountered this dilemma recently trying to combine other unrelated mail modules.

--Jim

---

---

Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!

Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.

Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.

Please read these before you post! —

• How do I compose an effective node title?
• How do I post a question effectively?
• Markup in the Monastery

Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:

a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr

You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)

	For:		Use:
	&		&
	<		&lt;
	>		&gt;
	[		&#91;
	]		&#93;

Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?

See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.