Hi Monks,

I am trying to write a simple Perl script that loops through all of my e-mails and prints the body of each e-mail to my web browser. Here is what I have so far: 

use Mail::POP3Client;

$pop = new Mail::POP3Client(
    USER => "my\@email.address",
    PASSWORD => "passwordxxxxx",
    HOST     => "mail.mydomain.com"
);

for($i = 1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++)
{
    $body = $pop->Body($i);
    print "<p>$body<p><hr>";
}

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This code works perfect for plain text e-mails.

However, with html e-mails, the script prints out all sorts of ugly headers. In addition, if the e-mail contains both an html and text version of the body, then the script outputs both the html and text versions (I only need one version, preferably the html version).

Does anyone know of a good way to parse HTML e-mails so that they can be printed out to the web browser?

In reply to parsing and printing e-mail by keiusui

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