Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper(3pm)

Usage

  my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($mail);
  my $msg = $stripper->message;
  my @attachments = $stripper->attachments;

Version

version 1.317

Overview

Given a Email::MIME object, detach all attachments from the message and make them available separately.

The message you're left with might still be multipart, but it should only be multipart/alternative or multipart/related.

Given this message:

  + multipart/mixed
    - text/plain
    - application/pdf; disposition=attachment

The PDF will be stripped. Whether the returned message is a single text/plain part or a multipart/mixed message with only the text/plain part remaining in it is not yet guaranteed one way or the other.

Methods

new

  my $stripper = Email::MIME::Attachment::Stripper->new($email, %args);

The constructor may be passed an Email::MIME object, a reference to a string, or any other value that Email::Abstract (if available) can cast to an Email::MIME object.

Valid arguments include:

  force_filename - try harder to get a filename, making one up if necessary

message

  my $email_mime = $stripper->message;

This returns the message with all the attachments detached. This will alter both the body and the header of the message.

attachments

  my @attachments = $stripper->attachments;

This returns a list of all the attachments we found in the message, as a hash of { filename, content_type, payload }.

This may contain parts that might not normally be considered attachments, like text/html or multipart/alternative.

Attention!

This module's behavior has never been very clearly spelled out, and it has led to misunderstandings and bug reports, which may or may not be actual bugs. I plan to take some significant action to address this. To read more or comment, please see <https://github.com/rjbs/Email-MIME-Attachment-Stripper/issues/2>

Credits and license

This module is incredibly closely derived from Tony Bowden's Mail::Message::Attachment::Stripper; this derivation was done by Simon Cozens ("[email protected]"), and you receive this under the same terms as Tony's original module.

Copyright and license

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

Releases

7 releases since Debian 8 (Jessie); the text changed 3 times.