PERL Programming - Fetching to and from and subject from MIME:Parser

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Fetching to and from and subject from MIME:Parser

Deke

2004-10-13, 3:55 am

When using MIME:Parser, how can one fetch the subject:, to: and from:
fields from the email message?

Thanks

Paul Lalli

2004-10-13, 9:03 am

"Deke" <Deke@nospam.com> wrote in message
news:10mp8u7c99t3ff4@news.supernews.com...
> When using MIME:Parser, how can one fetch the subject:, to: and from:
> fields from the email message?

Have you read the supporting documentation for the class you're using?
perldoc MIME::Parser:

Before reading further, you should see MIME::Tools to make
sure that you understand where this module fits into the
grand scheme of things.

doing what it says, we go to
perldoc MIME::Tools:
Parsing messages

You usually start by creating an instance of MIME::Parser
and setting up certain parsing parameters: what directory to
save extracted files to, how to name the files, etc.

You then give that instance a readable filehandle on which
waits a MIME message. If all goes well, you will get back a
MIME::Entity object (a subclass of Mail::Internet), which
consists of...

o A MIME::Head (a subclass of Mail::Header) which holds
the MIME header data.

I will leave the following the remainder of the documentation trail as
an exercise to the reader.

*After* you've read all the appropriate documentation, if you don't
understand some of it or your code doesn't do what you think it should
based on the documentation, *then* you should post again asking for
help.

Paul Lalli

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