attachment-stripper – Phocean.net / Computer Security Blog Fri, 24 Feb 2017 21:17:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.9.10 How to strip the attachment from an IMAP mail /2007/06/03/how-to-strip-the-attachment-from-an-imap-mail.html /2007/06/03/how-to-strip-the-attachment-from-an-imap-mail.html#comments Sun, 03 Jun 2007 16:09:21 +0000 http://www.phocean.net/?p=53 http://www.phocean.net/?p=53 While trying hard long and long hours to write a perl script that can extract attachments from pieces of e-mail, I realized that there were no clear info on the web on how to do, and that if I successed, I would publish that script.

Finally I succeded. That is actually very easy and that is probably why nothing was ever published about it. But, when you are a beginner in Perl (I learned it in 1 week), you normally need a little bit more help. Also, I was not alone in that case and there were a numerous questions on various forum, but without satisfying answers.

As I said, my script is extrimely simple.

It is based on the Mail::IMAPTalk module to establish the IMAP connection and on the MIME::Parser module to parse the mail as a MIME object (given by the first module).

I know there is a dedicated CPAN module to strip attachment : Mail::Attachment::Stripper, but, I could never get it to work and the author did not answer to my e-mail.

You will find the script here with some comments that should explain well :

attachment-stripper.zip

Of course, that is just a quick and dirty base : it is up to you to improve / correct / extend it to fit your needs. If so, be nice to update me here. ;)

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