in reply to Parse a Mail

Hi Spida, this has come up before - if you try a few permutations on mail, email, parse in the search box at the top of the page you should see some nodes where similar questions have been asked before

As a suggestion, have a look at this node How to parse emails with and without attachments?

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Re: Re: Parse a Mail
by Spida (Acolyte) on Oct 08, 2002 at 08:58 UTC
    I read that, even before you suggested to.
    But the Mail::Message module looks more inviting to me, partly because it seems to be more complete and with easier access to parts of a message.
    I'm reading the mail from STDIN with
    Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN);
my $absender = $msg->sender;

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    That gives me an error of
    WARNING: Illegal character in field name: From test@example.com Tue Oct 8 09
    Can't call method "sender" on an undefined value at myscript.pl line (second line of code).
    What am I doing wrong?
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      I can't say I've used that module, (and it looks to me as if it's more for building mail messages for sending, rather than parsing incoming messages, which is what I assume you're trying to do) but a couple of things spring to mind

      • Mail::Message can't handle STDIN - but you're obviously getting something
      • Some headers are missing - where are you getting your message from that you're passing to STDIN
      • The module doesn't like the @ - it may be that it (and other special characters) need to be escaped before passing through STDIN

      BTW, I'm not saying that it is, but you probably don't want to include real email addresses in examples on PM

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        Mail Message CAN handle STDIN -
        at least http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/html/Mail/Message/Construct.html#SYNOPSIS says so
        The error got away after I deleted the first line of the message. Please don't ask me why.
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