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.
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