in reply to Mail::Internet on Win32?

Try using Data::Dumper on the return from new().

print Dumper $mail; to see if the is anything useful in there.

I took a quick look at the source, and it would appear that new() returns a valid handle regardless of whether it managed to read anything or not. In fact, from my cursory glance, I couldn't see much in the way of error handling/reporting at all, but it maybe that this is buried further down in the hierachy of modules.

You'd think that you would get some indication of whether it failed to read the from file handle supplied. I couldn't see anything mentioned about what happens in the event of failure nor how to test for same?

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Re: Re: Mail::Internet on Win32?
by AssFace (Pilgrim) on Jun 27, 2003 at 16:22 UTC
    I added that line and sure enough, it seems to only be populating the 'mail_inet_body', but then that has everything in it - headers and the body.

    Judging from a comment I see here below this, perhaps Exchange doesn't format e-mail properly for this to read it, or perhaps my code in the way that it outputs it has somehow messed it up?

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      Basically what you are saying is that an MS product doesn't store it's data in the accepted internet standard format (RFC822).

      Um...Whatta surprise:)

      You might want to take a look at Win32::Exchange and Win32::Exchange::Mailbox. They maybe more in tune with your needs.

      Best of luck.

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