Hope some experts on Perlmonks can help me on this - If you have an Outlook email that includes an attached email, how can you use Perl to read/parse that embedded email? I tried to use WIN32::OLE, and I know you can get the mail body this way: $mailbody=$folder->Items->Item($i)->Body; Now this email also has an attached email and I need to get its mail body. So I used following line to get the attached email: my $attach = $folder->Items->Item($i)->Attachments(); After this line runs the $attach is that embedded email (and I can save the $attach to a text file), but how to open it to get its email body? I tried following but none of them worked: $mailbody=$attach->Body; # not working $mailbody=$attach->Items->Item(1)->Body; # not working $mailbody = $folder->Items->Item($i)->Attachments()->Body; # not working It'll be highly appreciated if somebody tells me where is wrong or where to find some sample codes.

In reply to Perl to read attached Outlook email? by maylin

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