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Hi Les,
Thanks for your reply.

I'm wholly ignorant of how to go about doing this using your suggestion. Are there resources to which you might point me for additional info?
That was the whole perl program needed to split the body of a message 
and any MIME attachments into separate files, given one email message 
on standard input.  If that doesn't make sense, you'll probably have 
to start with the 'learning perl' book or any general perl 
programming tutorials.  There are some details about the Mime::Tools 
package and how to use the components here: 
http://search.cpan.org/~doneill/MIME-tools/
Thanks, Les.  I'm digging into the docs now.

Solution was easier than I'd expected. I implemented Les' perl mime extractor script with slight mods so that on a go-forward, this will happen without intervention.
For the 700MB imap folder of historical docs, I used a thunderbird 
add-on called 'extract attachments' which does just what it says.  Got 
over 1300 docs in less than 10 mins simply by subscribing to the folder 
and running the add-on.
Thanks for the script and docs pointer, Les.

-Ray
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