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NAME
    Email::MIME - Easy MIME message parsing.

SYNOPSIS
      use Email::MIME;
      my $parsed = Email::MIME->new($message);

      my Email::MIME @parts = $parsed->parts;
      my $decoded = $parsed->body;
      my $non_decoded = $parsed->body_raw;

      my $content_type = $parsed->content_type;

DESCRIPTION
    This is an extension of the Email::Simple module, to handle MIME encoded
    messages. It takes a message as a string, splits it up into its
    constituent parts, and allows you access to various parts of the
    message. Headers are decoded from MIME encoding.

NOTE
    This is an alpha release, designed to stimulate discussion on the API,
    which may change in future releases. Please send me comments about any
    features you think "Email::MIME" should have. Note that I expect most
    things to be driven by subclassing and mix-ins.

METHODS
    Please see Email::Simple for the base set of methods. It won't take very
    long. Added to that, you have:

  parts
    This returns a set of "Email::MIME" objects reflecting the parts of the
    message. If it's a single-part message, you get the original object
    back.

  body
    This decodes and returns the body of the object. For top-level objects
    in multi-part messages, this is highly likely to be something like "This
    is a multi-part message in MIME format."

  body_raw
    This returns the body of the object, but doesn't decode the transfer
    encoding.

  content_type
    This is a shortcut for access to the content type header.

  filename
    This provides the suggested filename for the attachment part. Normally
    it will return the filename from the headers, but if "filename" is
    passed a true parameter, it will generate an appropriate "stable"
    filename if one is not found in the MIME headers.

AUTHOR
    Casey West, "casey@geeknest.com"

    Simon Cozens, "simon@cpan.org" (retired)

    You may distribute this module under the terms of the Artistic or GPL
    licenses.

THANKS
    This module was generously sponsored by Best Practical
    (http://www.bestpractical.com/) and Pete Sergeant.

SEE ALSO
    Email::Simple.