On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 02:51:19PM -0700, Gerardo Schimpf wrote:Hi guys! I'm looking Perl Module that does email decoder. I mean something that I gave to the email file and the Module returns the Message, Subject, Headers, etc, etc.
FROM perldoc Mail::Internet NAME Mail::Internet - manipulate Internet format (RFC 822) mail messages [...] DESCRIPTION This package provides a class object which can be used for reading, creating, manipulating and writing a message with RFC822 compliant headers.
Frankly, if you're just doing headers I'm not sure I'd bother with any package, the overhead usually isn't worth it if all you want to do is grab certain headers. (Unless of course you need to do things like decode encoded subjects and the like.)
If you start writing a new application, you may want to use the Mail::Box set of packages (requires perl 5.6.1), which has more fea- tures. See http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox.
That might be okay for headers (modulo my comment above). However I found it not good for webmail because it wants to read the entire mailbox every time. If you have each file as a message that doesn't scale well. It would work for a normal application, but on the web that means re-reading all the headers every time a page is fetched.
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