From: Chris Hall <christopher.k.hall@...>
Date: 2006-09-30T00:07:12+09:00
Subject: wrong content-type when trying to parse emails with Net::IMAP

i'm trying to parse an email that is supposed to be a multipart/mixed
mail but i am not getting back the expected results.

data = imap.fetch(7, ["ENVELOPE", "RFC822.HEADER", "BODYSTRUCTURE", "BODY[1]"])

[RFC822.HEADER]
...[some headers removed to protect the innocent]...
From: <foobar@foobar.com>
To: me@here.com
Date:          Thu, 31 Aug 2006 19:03:07 -05:00
Content-type: Multipart/Mixed; boundary=Message-Boundary-22611
X-finfo:       DOS,"FOOBAR.ZIP",,,,
Subject:       foobar inc. in stock inventory
Priority: normal
X-mailer: Pegasus Mail v3.50
Message-ID: <43CE57C70667@foobar.com>

[BODYSTRUCTURE]
 #<struct Net::IMAP::BodyTypeText media_type="TEXT", subtype="PLAIN",
param={"CHARSET"=>"US-ASCII"}, content_id=nil, description=nil,
encoding="7BIT", size=218060, lines=2959, md5=nil, disposition=nil,
language=nil, extension=nil>

[BODY[1]
--Message-Boundary-22611
Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-description: blah blah blah

blah blah blah
--Message-Boundary-22611
Content-Type: Application/Octet-stream; name=FOOBAR.ZIP
Content-transfer-encoding: BASE64

...[base64 encoded data]...
--Message-Boundary-22611--


as you can see above, the content-type is clearly multipart/mixed, but
yet, when i dump the bodystructure, i get text/plain.  the size and
lines corresponds to the size/lines of the body of the email.

anyone got any ideas on this one?

Chris