If Body is a subroutine, then the syntax for setting the value back would (probably) be

$items->Item($itemIndex)->Body( $body );
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Yeah, that's not it either... Body is an attribute, not a method, unfortunately.

Did you actually try it?

I realise that Body may be described as an attribute in the OLE documentation for Outlook, but the error message certainly imples that it ends up being implemented as a method within Win32::OLE.

The error message is pretty indicative.

{ 
    my $s = 'the quick brown fox'; 
    sub Body{ 
        ($s) = @_ if @_; 
        $s 
   } 
}
print Body();

the quick brown fox

Body = 'fred';
Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call in scalar assignment at (eval 
+3) line 1, at EOF

Body( 'fred' );
print Body();

fred
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If you did try it, what error message did you get from the attempt?

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Straight from the VBA Outlook documentation:

Body (Property).

Returns or sets the clear-text body of the mail message or post. Read/write String.

I understand that access to the body is implemented as a rw string in VBA.

But the error message issued by perl when the OP attempted to assign to it via Win32::OLE:

Can't modify non-lvalue subroutine call at ...,
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suggests fairly strongly that Win32::OLE implements access to the property using a subroutine -- Ie. an accessor/mutator method -- which does make a certain amount of sense.

It may not be correct, but that is the implication of the error message.