Try the Mail::Box modules.

There is a bit of a learning curve, but these are the best-designed and most comprehensive set of mail modules I have found.

sample code I'm working on ...

use strict;
use Mail::Box::Manager;
use POSIX qw(strftime); # Dont REALLY need this
use Date::Parse qw( str2time );
use Date::Manip;

my $MailboxManager   = Mail::Box::Manager->new;

ReadMail('Mailbox-name'
         ,'PASSWORD'
         ,'Server_Name.domain.com');
#############################################################
sub ReadMail{
  my ($UserName, $Password, $Server) = @_;
  # User should included domain, and Mailbox info, as required by serv
+er.

  my $POP3InboxFolder  = $MailboxManager->open(type => 'pop3' , folder
+=>'/'
       , username => $UserName, password => $Password
       ,server_name => $Server  ,access  => 'r',
       ,fix_header_errors => 1,  fixHeaderErrors=> 1)
      or die "Cannot open POP inbox for '$UserName' on $Server\n";
  my $msgCount=0;

  foreach my $msg ($POP3InboxFolder->messages(-15,-1)){ # Last 15
     #$msg->decoded->print(\*STDERR);
     print "-" x 50 . "\n";
     my $head = $msg->head;
     print "#Msg SENT on ", ($head->timestamp || 'unknown'),
         " = ", $head->get('Date') , " Interp=",
         POSIX::strftime(qq(%H:%M %d %b), localtime($head->timestamp))
+,
         "\n";
      print "#RCVD:" , $head->get('Received', 0) , "\n";
      foreach(reverse $head->get('Received')){
          # Extract the TIME received..
          my  $Date = &ParseDate( $_ ) or next;
           print "#Extracted Rcv Date $Date=" .
             POSIX::strftime(qq(%H:%M %d %b), localtime($Date))
              . "\n";
          last;
      }
      print "#Subject=", $msg->subject , "\n";
      my $sender = $msg->sender;
      $sender    and print qq(#Sender:\t) ,$sender->format , qq(\n) ;
      for ($head->names){
          print "#\t$_\t ", $head->get($_), ";\n" ;
      }
     print "-" x 50 . " $msgCount\n";
     last if $msgCount++ > 18;
  }
}
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