So I'm downloading the mail from a pop3 box using: 
use Net::POP3;

my $pop = Net::POP3->new('www.myhost.com', Timeout => 90);
if ($pop->login('listaddress+myhost.com','pass') > 0) {
  my $msgnums = $pop->list;
  foreach my $msgnum (keys %$msgnums) {
    my $msg = $pop->get($msgnum);
  }
}
$pop->quit;

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Pretty much straight from the POP3 docs. Now I want to use Mail::Box::MH to save the retrieved messages to an MH style folder. So I add: 
use Mail::Box::MH;
my $folder = new Mail::Box::MH folder => '/mypath/myspecialmailboxfold
+er';

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at the top, and then in the loop I put: 
    my $MHmsg = join "",@$msg;
    $folder->addMessage($MHmsg);

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which fails because addMessage must recieve a message object. So I search diligently for a (prefab) way to construct a message object from the plaintext that is returned from the POP3 get call because I know that I'm not competent enough to handle parsing all the possible (standard and non-standard) MIME and non-MIME headers and bodies for myself. I have had no luck. Can anyone point me in the right direction?

In reply to Creating mail::message from retrieved text by raflach

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