EVENT DRIVEN DYNAMIC MULTI-PURPOSE INTERNET MAIL EXTENSIONS (MIME) PARSER

An event driven MIME parser is provided. Quantities (chunks) of MIME data are received from a client and parsed to identify the boundaries internal to the MIME data and to isolate the content body. If the MIME message is not completed parsing before the end of the current chunk of data is recognized, the parsed data is written to storage and linked together with other previously-parsed content bodies. When the next chunk of MIME data is received, i.e., an event is recognized at the parsing server, the content body is isolated from the new chunk of MIME data and appended to the previously linked together content bodies, and parsing continues.