in reply to Reading Mail::Message objects using Mail::POP3Client

I got this idea to use Mail::POP3Client for doing the download, and it works fine. But now I do not want to reinvent the wheel just another time, so I though to use the Mail::Message class to do the parsing for me.

If (or when) you start dealing with attachements, you might find that Mail::Message isn't sufficient. I recommend getting a copy of Lincon Stein's Network Programming with Perl. Chapter 8 gives a working example of dealing with MIME-encoded messages (of which non-encoded messages are a trivial subset) using MIME::Parser.

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