You can let perl do a lot more of the parsing work for you.

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

  my $mailspoolfile = "/var/spool/mail/mohadib";

  open MAIL, "< $mailspoolfile" or 
    die "Error opening $mailspoolfile: $!\n";

  # first, get (and discard) the headers,
  # which are in the first "paragraph":
  my $headers = do { local $/ = ""; <MAIL> };

  # now read the remaining lines as normal.
  my( $uname, $uptime, $date ) = <MAIL>;
  close MAIL;

  # don't forget to chomp!
  chomp $uname, $uptime, $date;

  # now you can print them if you want:
  print <<EOF;
  uname: $uname
  uptime: $uptime
  date: $date
  EOF
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