You need To pull the body of the message out with Mime::Parser and then strip out the HTML tags. Infact the Mime::Parser should tell you how many parts there are and check if there is a text/plain mime type. If there is use this without stripping away html tags. If there is not a text/plain but there is a text/html then grab it and throw away the html tags. also the following should eliminate the html tags without using HTML::TreeBuilder $body =~ s/<.*?>//g
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I always wanted to be somebody... I guess I should have been more specific.