MIME Partial messages - unable to combine parts to create the origional pdf

Question

Hi:
I have a scanner/printer emailing a pdf document to an imap mail account I check with mail.app. The printer is set to break up mail messages into 5mb segments - this allows mailing of documents to some companies that restrict mail messages sizes.
I did read through the threads in this list on this subject - none were solved, but appeared to be waiting for more information, I hope what I have collected below will help in this type of problem.
If this is no longer an option within mail.app, I may be able to script it in perl, called from applescript. Perl have a module to decode MIME parts.
For this particular message, it broke up the document into 3 parts.
mail.app message window:
Partial message, part 1 of 3
To read this message, select all of the parts of the message and select the Message --> MIME --> Combine Messages menu item.
The text "select all of the parts of the message" is not included in the raw messages and therefore must be generated by mail.app itself.
Message --> MIME does not exist in mail.app version 2.1 (or 1.3)
Is there a way within mail.app to append/combine three mail messages
Message header:
Subject: part 1/3<[email protected]>
To: kent
Cc: jerry
Date: Tue, 1 May 2007 09:27:33 -0500
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: message/partial;
id="TANUP<1178029645.00007494ed80>";
number=1;
total=3
Raw view snip from part 1/3:
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: message/partial;
id="TANUP<1178029645.00007494ed80>";
number=1;
total=3
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: multipart/mixed;
boundary="DCBOUND_PRE<1178029645.00007494ed80>"
This is a multi-part message in MIME format.
--DCBOUND_PRE<1178029645.00007494ed80>
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit
This E-mail was sent from "duplex" (Aficio 2027).
Scan Date: 01.05.2007 09:27:23 (-0500)
Queries to: [email protected]
--DCBOUND_PRE<1178029645.00007494ed80>
Content-Type: application/pdf; name="20070501092725014.pdf"
Content-Transfer-Encoding: base64
Content-Disposition: attachment;
filename="20070501092725014.pdf"
JVBERi0xLjMKJZKgoooKNCAwIG9iago8PC9UeXBlL1hPYmplY3QKL1N1YnR5cGUvSW1hZ2UK
L1dpZHRoIDQyMjQKL0hlaWdodCAyNTUxCi9CaXRzUGVyQ29tcG9uZW50IDEKL0NvbG9yU3Bh
Raw view snip from part 2/3:
Message-Id: <[email protected]>
MIME-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: message/partial;
id="TANUP<1178029645.00007494ed80>";
number=2;
total=3
mhjYPvksDwe9LRhBN1HIa5KYEbDGNhlLjBB2OCJByyi80gnnVdauo1i89h8XGrtYIC8i5SBl
PowerMac G4   Mac OS X (10.4.9)   Mail version 2.1 (752/752.2)
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Answer 1

If you do a search of the help in Acrobat with "merge files" you come up with at least 2 different solutions.