Having just now fiddled with Mail::Internet and failed to get it working, let me instead provide the following:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#

while(<>)
{
    last if ( /^\s*$/ );
}

print <>;
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Running this using the message as the input file will produce the output

Martin A posted: 
Tassos Papadopoulos, the Greek sculptor behind the plan, judged that t
+he 
limestone of Mount Kerdylio, 70 miles east of Salonika and not far fro
+m the 
Mount Athos monastic community, was ideal for the patriotic sculpture.
+ 

As well as Alexander's granite features, 240 ft high and 170 ft wide, 
+a 
museum, a restored amphitheatre and car park for admiring crowds are 
planned 
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So is this mountain limestone or granite? 
If it's limestone, it'll weather pretty fast. 

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as requested.

Since the divider between the mail header and the mail body is just a blank line, this script should be dead easy for you. I highly recommend you get a good book that explains E-Mail in some detail, perhaps something from O'Reilly.

A good book on Perl would also be an excellent investment.

tq so much for ur guidance!!! really appreciate it for the

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
#
#

while(<>)
{
    last if ( /^\s*$/ );
}

print <>;
[download]

thanks so much talexb ur code are so helpful^^

if my email got html code how am i goin to exclude the html tag... the example mail with html tag

<title>Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi</title>
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i only wan the contain after the html tag are remove so it would be

Cable companies cracking down on Wi-Fi

I can't recommend any module in particular -- a quick look on CPAN shows HTML::Strip as the first module I found that might do the job.

While it's tempting to say, "Hey, I can do that with a regular expression!", you'll probably find that it rarely works as well as you expect.

HTML E-Mail sometimes contains the HTML version of the message in one section, and the text only version in another section -- you might want to check that out as well.

Alex / talexb / Toronto

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