Thanks, but buildFromBody, requires a Mail::Message::Body object, which requires the same type of parsing as Mail::Message. I just know there have to be hooks in there somewhere to read in a plaintext file and produce a Message object, but I haven't been able to find them. As an alternative does anyone have any e-mail header/body parsing routines that return some easily manipulable hash/array/whatever that I could then use to construct a message using build?