Hi all,

I am writing a script which reads an email in (via STDIN) and sticks it in a database - I posted a node on how to approach this a while back but it seemed the only response was to use modules - i have checked them out and I really have no idea how to incorporate them into myscript. What I am trying to do is simply pipe an email to my script (which is done) and the script to extract the From: email and the Subject: and Message:

I am having problems though, I am using the following code to get the From: field, but, when the from feild = something like JOHN <ad@add.com> it fails ... as I only want the eail address, not the from 'name' .. If anyone can help me with any suggestions I would greatly appreciate it - I have seen examples of using modules MAIL and MIME and tried it but I simply dont know where to start ... here is my code. Many Thanks 
while (<STDIN>)
{
  last if /^$/;    
  $from = "$1" if /^From:(.+)$/; 
  $subject = "$1" if /^Subject:(.+)$/; 
}

while (<STDIN>) 
{    
    push @message, $_;
}

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Edit Masem 2001-11-13 - Fixed the example address in the text descriptive with CODE tags

In reply to Email Header by Anonymous Monk

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