They are not reading, they are sending (I think I phrased the question badly).

Right now what happens is: user filles out and submits form, perl script inserts the info into the database. In addition to this, I want to have the option of having the user send an email to a specified address, where the perl script would retrieve it from and insert the data into the database. This sort of thing feels a little icky, but it is a small and silly project.