If you want real, raw scripting power, consider Win32::OLE together with Microsoft Outlook - it's quite some thing, and it is almost fully scriptable.

Mark Overmeer has written a Tk Perl mailclient, out of which many of his Mail::Box modules came, which will be of much use to you if you decide on embarking on writing your own mail client.

Personally, I have a Mail::Audit script in my .forward file, which processes all my incoming mail into different folders, which I then read through an IMAP4 client.

If you want to stay with only one machine and only have POP3 inboxes, I recommend using one of the POP3 client modules to download your mail, and then feed the mails to another Perl script which then sorts them into local storage and munges them to whatever you want. Most mail readers can read the mailbox format or something similar.

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 thread Mail Clients and Perl by l3nz

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