MySQL DBI problem

[gregg]

I am trying to read email off a mail server using perl, parse it, and 
then store the fields in a MySQL database.  I managed to write the 
first two parts in a couple of days, but now I've spent two weeks 
trying to get the fields into a the "Messages" database.  I have got 
several fields to go in and then I ran the same script the next day 
with no changes and it wasn't working any longer.

I have run into about every problem imaginable and I can't get a stable 
script.  Once when I thought I had it working, the script started 
carping because there were embedded quotes in the email body which it 
interpreted as delimiters.  I tried the "qw" function and it was 
bitching about another syntax problem.

I have a few books on Perl that have DBI examples but they are not made 
for MySQL and the examples are very Mickey Mouse compared to what I'm 
trying to do.  Any suggestions or directions to potential resources 
will be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Gregg