Dearest Monks, i have setup a gmail account to receive google alerts. i wrote the script below to dump the header and body of any email received by this account into a TXT file. my problem is this - when the body of the email is dumped into the TXT file i only get the resulting text and not the underlying HTML code. for example, what i want in the TXT file is: 
<a href="http://www.blahblah.com/article.html">The Article Link</a>

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Not: 
The Article Link

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my code is below. any thoughts? please note, the script below is only designed for capturing the header / body of a single email. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Mail::POP3Client;

my $user = 'blahblahblah';
my $pass = 'blahblahblah';

my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client(
    USER     => $user,
    PASSWORD => $pass,
    HOST     => "pop.gmail.com",
    PORT     => 995,
    USESSL   => 'true',
);

my $count = $pop->Count();
if ($count < 0) {
    print $pop->Message();
} elsif ($count == 0) {
    print "no messages\n";
} else {    
    for my $i (1 .. $count) {    
        open(STDOUT, ">my_txt_output.txt");
        my $fh = new IO::Handle();
        $fh->fdopen( fileno( STDOUT ), "w" );
        $pop->HeadAndBodyToFile( $fh, $i );
        close STDOUT;
    }
}
$pop->Close();

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many thanks...

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