Thanks.
For further clarification : an example:

  use Mail::Internet;
  $msgfile = "Angelee.msg";
  open (MSG, "$msgfile") or die "Can't open $msgfile: $!\n";
  $msg = new Mail::Internet \*MSG;
  close (MSG);
  $body = $msg->body();
  $msg->print_body(\*STDOUT);

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The message body as dumped to the terminal contains approx. 80% mail binary and HTML formating chars and only 20% corresponding to the transmitted TEXT payload.

I'd like a function to strip off all that junk:
  msg_clean($body);

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Ok, so i've written some regex filtering to do it, but that's hardly as as flexible & robust as a real MIME-knowledgeable parsing could be.
I expext there would be a msg_clean or body2text or equiv. function out there ?

allan

In reply to Re^2: Extracting TEXT from email by ady
in thread Extracting TEXT from email by ady

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