I am writing a script where I need to parse email source and in particular I need to process 'received' headers. My script successfully extracts all the 'received' headers using Mail::Message. However, the only module I can find that supposedly parses those headers is Mail::Field::Received. Mail::Field seems to want to read the email itself but Mail::Message has already done that. Not being a perl guru I can only guess that in spite of the documentation that says Mail::Field::Received should not be used directly, doing so is the way to accomplish what I want. Basically, how do I pass the received header from Mail::Message to Mail::Field::Received without Mail::Field re-reading the message source? That is, is the structure of the headers from Mail::Message compatible with what Mail::Field::Received wants to parse? TIA. 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;
use Mail::Message;
use Mail::Field;
use Data::Dumper;

my $msg=Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN);
my $head=$msg->head();

my $from=$msg->from;
my @to=$msg->to;
my @subject=$msg->subject;
my @recv=$head->get('received');

foreach my $recv_item (@recv) {
   # I need to create an array of hashes, each of which
   # contains a parsed 'received' header
}

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I think there is also a monkey wrench in here as the headers can wrap, according to the documentation. I think that means a single received header can wind up in 2 array items. That will be another can of worms but I will be happy for now just being able to parse the non-wrapped headers.

In reply to Mail::Message and Mail::Field by gw1500se

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