Basil A. Daoust wrote: > Now I have to believe that some Perl modules must exist that can already > parse a email file. > I looked at email::simple but it didn't really work the way I hoped. It > treated the email file as a single email. > I found a example that looked very promising but it requires > Email::Folder and that doesn't seem to be available for ActivePerl 5.10? > I did find a version on cpan but being a windows user running a make has > never worked for me. > > What I want to do is open a mail file, that is in plain text, > Split it into individual emails. > Then split the text/plain if available or the text/html if plain/text > not available, out of a multi-part mime messages. > Discarding the stuff that would be non-visible in the normal email. > Now I can do all that using brute force but I kind of thought that > something must exist. > > I would like any modules suggested be available via PPM, thanks.
Try MIME::Parser - if it won't handle the file, just split the file at each '^File - <date>' marker you find and feed the individual msgs to the parser. _______________________________________________ ActivePerl mailing list [email protected] To unsubscribe: http://listserv.ActiveState.com/mailman/mysubs
