Thank you very much for your Mail::IMAPClient Perl module. In fact there
is a functionality, which I think is missing. I would like to propose
such a functionality for the next version of your module. Please correct
me if I am wrong and this functionality exists already.
I want to extract the single body parts of a message to handle them
differently. Here is what exists
$o_ImapBodyStruct = $o_ImapClient->get_bodystructure($l_MsgId);
@l_BodyParts = $o_ImapBodyStruct->parts();
foreach my $l_BodyPart (@l_BodyParts) {
$l_Message = $o_ImapClient->bodypart_string($l_MsgId, $l_BodyPart);
print $l_Message;
}
In fact I am able to extract the content of each body part of the
message. But I cannot see any possibility to get access to the header of
a single body part. Only the header can tell me what to do with the
content. Here is an example, how it could be handled.
foreach my $l_BodyPart (@l_BodyParts) {
# expand the access to header information by a body part index
$l_Mime = $o_ImapBodyStruct->bodytype($l_BodyPart) . "/" .
$o_ImapBodyStruct->bodysubtype($l_BodyPart);
# adding the get_header method to the Mail::IMAPClient::BodyStructure class
$l_Encoding = $o_ImapBodyStruct->get_header($l_BodyPart,
"Content-Transfer-Encoding");
$l_ContentType = $o_ImapBodyStruct->get_header($l_BodyPart,
"Content-Type");
$l_Message = $o_ImapClient->bodypart_string($l_MsgId, $l_BodyPart);
if ($l_Mime eq 'text/plain') {
print $l_Message;
} elsif ($l_Mime eq 'image/gif') {
# extract file name from $l_ContentType
# extract attachment
} ...
}
Thank you very much for considering this idea.
RT for rt.cpan.org