Originally Posted by nageshrc

Hi Everyone ,

I have some queries about parsing a e-mail message
stored in unix mail box.
I am facing a small problem with this program.
My original problem definition is that :

" Mails come from Internet to my Unix Inbox with attachments. I need to read each message and separate the attachments from it. "

All the mails are stored in a single file ( for example in
/var/mail/nagesh ).
The scope is to detach the attachments from each message and store in any directory.
I have written the necessary perl script which reads each message from the unix mail box and detaches the attachments into a directory. ( I have used perl MIME::Parser )

As you know whenever we send a mail from a client mail software , it adds some parameters to the header , body and the attachment of the mail.
For example when i send a mail from outlook express with a
attachment named "Syllabus.txt" then the parameters for the attachment looks like
this :

Content-Type: text/plain;
name="Syllabus.txt"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="Syllabus.txt"


But here is my problem.
I have sent an e-mail with an attachment from my local outlook express client to the Production Unix Mail box .
And when i opened the message on the unix mail box
i was able to find Content-Type , Content-Transfer-Encoding ,
and Content-Disposition parameters but
the parameters "name" and "filename" were missing.

I don't know why is this happening .
As these two parameters are missing , i am unable to detach the attachments with their original file name .

Does anyone of you have the idea of why this is happening ???
Or is it the problem of any setting on the receiving End ???
Your help will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Nagesh.