in reply to Parsing Incoming Mail

MIME::Tools has saved me on many occasions. It isn't hard to use, and the overhead is worth it for handling the vagaries of MIME-formatted emails, especially ones with nested attachments. I process SpamAssassin-filtered mail which can have attached RFC-822 messages which themselves contain attachments. Don't write your own parser, the whole point of CPAN is leverage what the community provides you.

HTH, SSF

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Re^2: Parsing Incoming Mail
by Rodster001 (Pilgrim) on Jan 05, 2009 at 19:37 UTC
    Just to wrap up this thread, I did end up using MIME::Tools and everything is working nicely. It wasn't bad at all once I got into it. I've tested with a few user agents and so for so good. It is a heavyweight but what can I say, email is heavyweight. And yes, I agree with you sflitman, CPAN is a friend which I wholly embrace.
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