Parsing MIME email FILE instead of stream?

[Anon]

I'm writing a MIME-based email service. I've already got the compose section workin great, with attachments and stationary. Also, a somewhat messy hack-of-a-way of handling the receiving end, in Perl.

So, I have the actual output from an email, the entire contents, stored in a file. Is there a way to mimic an imap stream with a local file? I just need a way to completely parse-out a MIME email file. the imap functions are great, and very easy to use when connecting to a real POP3 or IMAP server, but I haven't been able to find a way to do what i'm tryin.

any ideas?

( aside from writing my own MIME decoder 🙂 )
thanks much

Blake

[Anon]

What platform is this on? There are a number of mime
decoders available for unix; several appear to be installed
on my RH6 linux box, though I've never needed them badly
enough to actually figure out how to work them.

[Anon]

Redhat 6.1. Really? which do you recommend? I'm using MIME::Tools : MIME:😛arser, MIME::Filer, and soon the PGP ones. if you think perl's the best way to go about this, then i'll stick with what i got.

right now i parse up the incoming email into files with the above perl modules. i'd rather leave the email file on the server alone, and just have PHP extract whichever section of the email it needs.

thanks

[Anon]

Not perl, I think. IIRC these were just some executables.