If you mean when an attachment is a mail message with attachments...
yes.

Cheers,
Kevin

On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 01:33:21PM -0400, Wiggins d'Anconia ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
said something similar to:
> On a side note and out of laziness (I know RTFM)....
> 
> Does MIME::Parser handle recursive attachments??  We attempted to home 
> grow a parser a couple of years ago (I realize a lot has changed since 
> then) but were always trapped by multiple attachments inside an 
> attachment, etc. which for whatever reason we never could get to work. I 
> suppose you could use a regular recursive call to the standard 
> MIME::Parser methods, but I was just curious if it handled this on its own?
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> Kevin Meltzer wrote:
> > I use MIME::Parser, and have always loved it. It will extract
> > attachments to files, and you can do what you want with them. 
> > 
> > For example:
> > 
> > use MIME::Parser;
> > my $message = <however you are getting the raw message>;
> > $parser->output_dir('/some/directory'); 
> > my $entity = $parser->parse_data(\$message);
> > 
> > At this point, attachments should have been parsed out and created in
> > $INCOMING_DIR. Use $entity to fondle the rest of the message as you
> > want. Much more info in the docs.
> > 
> > Cheers,
> > Kevin
> > 
> > On Thu, Jul 18, 2002 at 10:25:52AM -0700, Steve Gilbert ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 
>said something similar to:
> > 
> >>Does anyone have a suggestion for extracting file
> >>attachments from emails? I need to setup a process
> >>that pulls data from an email and then moves the data
> >>and starts another process.
> >>
> >>Any help would be great!
> >>
> > 
> > 
> 
> 
> 
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