use Net::POP3; # $MAILSERVER,$MAILUSER,$MAILPASS defined here! # Constructors $pop = Net::POP3->new($MAILSERVER); if ($pop->login($MAILUSER, $MAILPASS) > 0) { my $msgnums = $pop->list; # hashref of msgnum => size foreach my $msgnum (keys %$msgnums) { my $head = $pop->top($msgnum,0); my ($subject, $from) = analyze_header($head); print "From: $from ; Subject: $subject \n"; } } $pop->quit; print "done.\n"; sub analyze_header { my $header_array_ref = shift; my $header = join "", @$header_array_ref; my ($subject) = $header =~ /Subject: (.*)/m; my ($from ) = $header =~ /From: (.*)/m; return ($subject, $from); } #### starting... From: "=?utf-8?B?Q2hyaXMgSHVudA==?=" ; Subject: =?utf-8?B?VGVzdA==?= From: "=?utf-8?B?Q2hyaXMgSHVudA==?=" ; Subject: =?utf-8?B?VGVzdA==?= done.