---
name: "Mail::MIMEDefang::MIME"
section: "3"
platform: "linux"
package: "mimedefang"
version: "3.6-2"
release: "Debian 13 (Trixie)"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Mail::MIMEDefang::MIME"
---

# Mail::MIMEDefang::MIME(3)

MIME objects interface methods for email filters

## NAME

Mail::MIMEDefang::MIME - MIME objects interface methods for email filters

## DESCRIPTION

Mail::MIMEDefang::MIME are a set of methods that can be called from *mimedefang-filter* to operate on MIME objects.

## METHODS

- collect\_parts

  Method that adds parts to the array `@FlatParts` for flattening.

- takeStabAtFilename ( $entity )

  Makes a guess at a filename for the attachment.  Calls MIME::Head's **recommended\_filename()** method, which tries 'Content-Disposition.filename'and if not found, 'Content-Type.name'.

  Returns a MIME-decoded filename, or a blank string if none found.

- find\_part

  Method that returns the first MIME entity of type `$content_type`, `"undef"` if none exists.

- append\_to\_part

  Method that appends text to `$part`

- remove\_redundant\_html\_parts

  Method that rebuilds the email message without redundant HTML parts. That is, if a multipart/alternative entity contains text/plain and text/html parts, the text/html part will be removed.

- append\_to\_html\_part

  Method that appends text to the spicified mime part, but does so by parsing HTML and adding the text before \</body\> or \</html\> tags.

- append\_text\_boilerplate

  Method that appends text to text/plain part or parts.

- append\_html\_boilerplate

  Method that appends text to text/html part or parts. It tries to be clever and inserts the text before the \</body\> tag to be able of being seen.

- anonymize\_uri

  Anonymize urls by removing all utm\_\* parameters, takes the message part as parameter and returns a boolean value if the sub succeeded or not.