WISE ONES,
I want to use to parse & process all (242) message in an inbox.
I suspect it is something simple, but I can't seem to make it work for me.
Please point me in the right direction.
TIA! 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
use MIME::Base64 ();
use MIME::Parser;
#my $raw_file = "/tmp/bcm";
my $raw_file = "/var/spool/mail/schering";
# the file above has 242 messages in it.
open(RAW,$raw_file);
my $msg_cnt = 0;
my $line_cnt = 0;
my $msg_start = -1;
my ($subject, $pdf_name, $decoded);
$subject = "blank";
my  ( $line, $pdf_start, $pdf_close );
$pdf_start = 0;
$pdf_close = 0;
### Create parser, and set some parsing options:
$parser = new MIME::Parser;
$parser->output_under("/tmp/mimemail");
#
while  ( <RAW> ) {
   $line = $_;
   $line_cnt++;
   $msg_start = index( $line,"From ");
   if ( $msg_start == 0 ) {
      $msg_cnt++;
#
      $head = MIME::Head->read(\*RAW);
      $subject =   $head->get('Subject:', 0);
      chop($subject);
      $subject =~ s/ /_/g;
      $subject =~ s#/#-#g;
      $subject =~ s#,##g;
      $subject =~ s#'##g;
      $subject =~ s#&##g;
      $subject =~ s#\(##g;
      $subject =~ s#\)##g;
      print "$subject\n";
#
# when the two $entity lines are uncommented, 
#the code stops processing after the 1st message.
# What change is required to get all the messages parsed & processed?
# with the two lines immediately below 
#(which are now commented out and start with $entity)
# All 242 subjects get printed.
      #$entity = $parser->parse(\*RAW) or die "parse failed\n";
      #$entity->dump_skeleton;
      $msg_start = 1;
#
   }
}
exit;

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