Comments on: How to strip the attachment from an IMAP mail

By: onlyformydream

onlyformydream — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 23:54:12 +0000

I need to strip ALL the new emails with attachments instead of the latest new email. What should I do to process the array of @MsgId (and not $MsgId)?

I also noticed that the script stripped the attachment from the email, but doesn’t flag it “read” afterwards, so if there is no new email come in and you re-run the script, the same email attachment will be extracted again.

Sorry for my noob questions and thanks you in advance for your help!

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Tue, 30 Aug 2011 15:02:45 +0000

Yes! it is not unicode. But doesn’t matter. Your script works perfectly for me. Thanks!

By: phocean

phocean — Fri, 26 Aug 2011 13:46:56 +0000

Hmm you can safely ignore this warning.
In my script, I specify the use of unicode, for compatibility with most of languages :

use Mail::IMAPTalk qw(:utf8support);

My guess is that your imap folder is not in unicode encoding. Am I correct ?

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:55:44 +0000

OK i had to mkdir the folder “extracted” on my own. The script works and extracts messages very well. But the error message remains. i could live with it but would like to know what it menas. …

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Wed, 24 Aug 2011 08:27:18 +0000

hello,

i treid to get this trunning under Linux and installed IMAPTalk.pm. Script seems to login but it get stuck with this error message

Connecting to IMAP server at 127.0.0.1:myusername…
Please report to rjlov at /lib/Mail/IMAPTalk.pm line 3859.
Warning only: IMAPTalk not using unicode_folders at /lib/Mail/IMAPTalk.pm line 3860
Mail::IMAPTalk::_fix_folder_name(‘Mail::IMAPTalk=HASH(0x83a9ca4)’,'INBOX’) called at /lib/Mail/IMAPTalk.pm line 1168
Mail::IMAPTalk::select(‘Mail::IMAPTalk=HASH(0x83a9ca4)’,'INBOX’) called at ./imap.pl line 31
main::connexion(127.0.0.1,’myusername’,',mypass’,143,’INBOX’) called at ./imap.pl line 96
Please report to rjlov at /lib/Mail/IMAPTalk.pm line 3861.
IMAP connection successful !
mkdir extracted/msg-1314173768-21507-0: No such file or directory

By: phocean

phocean — Sun, 06 Feb 2011 09:34:21 +0000

@Bruno: I really don’t have time but I can have a really quick look (5 min), if there is a chance…

@Chris: I haven’t tested it and can’t as I don’t have an iphone.
Doesn’t the iphone respect the RFC ?

By: Chris

Chris — Wed, 08 Dec 2010 09:37:17 +0000

Hi,

nice work. Does it work with attachments in a mail sent from an iPhone, because these doesen’t work with most scripts.

Thans
Chris

By: Bruno

Bruno — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 09:04:09 +0000

Hi JC.
I tried with simple emails where the attachment is just a txt file and I tried as well with jpg.
Do you have the time to try it yourself and see if it works?

Thank you in advance.
Bruno

By: JC

JC — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 21:45:18 +0000

Hmm… It means that it could connect correctly to your mailbox but failed at parsing the message body.
It is difficult to tell what’s wrong without seeing the message structure itself.
Have you tried with other messages?

By: Bruno

Bruno — Thu, 23 Sep 2010 20:29:31 +0000

I have been having the same problem.
Thanks a lot for this.
Yet, I tried it the script breaks when trying to extract the attachment.

“Can’t fetch the message ! at attachment stripper.pl line 36.”

Do you have any tips about what could be the problem?
I’m using this in a Dreamhost server, running locally on the server.

Thanks a lot for the great work you made here!
Bruno