Greetings folk monks,

I'm currently rewriting a script that used Net::POP3 and Mail::Internet to use the Mail::Box series of modules.

I've been scouring the documentation for Mail::Box and have managed to get most things working - except for displaying a message, either as part of a loop or individually.

What follows is the basic script I'm using:


#! /usr/bin/perl -w # ignoring -T - just testing.

use strict;
use Mail::Box::Manager;

die "Usage: $0 message_number\n"
    unless @ARGV==1;

my $msg_num = shift @ARGV;

my $mailspool = "/var/spool/mail/baz";
my $mgr = Mail::Box::Manager->new;
my $folder = $mgr->open($mailspool);

# Get message specified on command line.
my $message $folder->message($msg_num);

print $message;

$folder->close;

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This code runs without errors and returns

Mail::Box::Mbox::Message=HASH(0x84c560)
Or some other reference to a hash, so I changed print $message to print %$message, only to get the same output.

I'm not finding anything helpful in the Mail::Box-Cookbook or Mail::Box::Mbox::Message manpages.

Is there something that I'm missing here? My code is basically the same as that shown in the Mail::Box manual!

Could someone please enlighten me, please?
I've only found one node ( Mail::Box-addMessage vs. Net::Pop3 ) that even mentions Mail::Box, and it's not relevant to this problem.

Cheers,

BazB.

In reply to Problems displaying a single message with Mail::Box by BazB

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