To me it seems you want to do the following steps :

  1. Fetch email from POP3 server (done via Net::POP3)
  2. Parse email, extract headers, divide it into attachments (to be determined)
  3. Stuff the data into the database (presumably via DBI
I work with Mail::Box to glue together some local mail delivery, and Mail::Box has some nice features to parse raw email text into header, body and attachments - I recommend you take a look at it. If you want to do the parsing yourself, you should look at how Mail::Box parses emails and you will need many of the prerequisites of Mail::Box anyway :-).

As for the mechanism how to get at the emails themselves, I consider polling the POP3 server every 5 or 2 minutes often enough - if you want faster delivery, you will need to set up your own mailserver and have the mail delivered to your host directly.

perl -MHTTP::Daemon -MHTTP::Response -MLWP::Simple -e ' ;    # The  
$d = new HTTP::Daemon and fork and getprint $d->url and exit;#spider
($c = $d->accept())->get_request(); $c->send_response( new   #in the
HTTP::Response(200,$_,$_,qq(Just another Perl hacker\n))); ' #  web

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In reply to Re: Parse Email by Corion
in thread Parse Email by Anonymous Monk

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