Hello Monks: I'm trying to do some parsing of bounced email messages. I'm using qmail as MTA (although I think this should not be relevant). My approach is to traverse the directories with File::Find and the callback function would take care of the rest. 
my $directory = '/home/vpopmail/domains/somedomain.net';
opendir DH, $directory or die $!;
my @users = grep {!/^\.+/ && !/\.bak$/ && !/postmaster/} readdir DH;
closedir DH;

$_ = "$directory/$_" for @users;
find (\&process_file, @users);

sub process_file {
    return if -d;

    my $full_name="$File::Find::dir/$_";
    my $cmd_res=`file $full_name`;

    return unless $cmd_res =~ /smtp mail text$/;

    open K, "<$full_name" or die $!;
    #my @safe_file_copy=<K>;
    #my $file_content=join("\n",<K>); #@safe_file_copy);
    #print $file_content;
    # ............

    #my $bounce = eval { Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser->new($file
+_content); };
    my $bounce = eval { Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser->new(\*K); 
+};

    if ($bounce->is_bounce) {
    for my $report ( $bounce->reports() ) {
           print "email: ".$report->get('email')."\n";
       print "reason: ".$report->get('std_reason')."\n";
    }
    } else {
    print "Does not look like a bounced msg!\n";
    }
    close K;    
}

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After a few attempts to use my own regexps, etc I found that this module Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser; could save me some work, and if fact, everything goes ok until i try to do anything (see commented lines in the callback function) with the file handle before passing it to the constructor of Mail::DeliveryStatus::BounceParser. Any help will be highly appreciated

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