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Thanks for your reply 2teez. msg files are outlook files. It has only plain text in the body of the mail. I need to read the body of each msg file. The module Email::Outlook::Message can be used if I am trying to read mail in the outlook. But the mails will be saved in a folder and I need to retrieve the body of mails from the directory. open function will not open the msg files for reading the body of the mail.

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Re^3: Reading msg file
by 2teez (Vicar) on Sep 02, 2014 at 09:44 UTC

    ..The module Email::Outlook::Message can be used if I am trying to read mail in the outlook. But the mails will be saved in a folder..
    Email::Outlook::Message, also parse mail when you are not reading from your Outlook mail directly. i.e with your mails saved in a folder on your local drive.
    E.g: 

    #!/usr/bin/perl -Wl
use strict;

use Email::Outlook::Message;

for my $filename ( glob("$ARGV[0]*") ) {

    ## tell the filename reading
    print 'Filename: ', $filename;

    my $msg  = new Email::Outlook::Message $filename;
    my $mime = $msg->to_email_mime;
    print $mime->as_string;
}

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    NOTE: I didn't link the Email::Outlook::Message, I only outlined it here. Others in this thread had it linked already.
    And of course, your folder which contain these msg files must be the given from the CLI.

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      Hi, how could I tailor this code to print $filename only if the email body contains a certain keyword, such as "training"?
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        You don't show any code, so it is hard for us to give you concrete advice.

        Please tell use where exactly you have problems:

        Do you have a problem finding the mail body?

        Do you have a problem finding the keyword ("training") in your case?

        Do you have a problem printing the filename on a condition?

        The best approach is to reduce your code to something relevant, self-contained and short (http://sscce.org) and post that code. This allows us to reproduce your situation and give you concrete advice towards your next goal.

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