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List:       perl-beginners
Subject:    Re: Help with modules and objects
From:       63.251.223.186
Date:       2009-01-27 20:43:24
Message-ID: 84f79702-4529-4ea4-bcda-90fd639c24ae () p2g2000prn ! googlegroups ! com
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On Jan 26, 1:36 pm, wpflu...@yahoo.com (Bill) wrote:
> I'm not a beginner with perl but all of my previous stuff has been
> simple and I've never really used modules, until now.  I'm working on
> a program that has to receive a mime encoded email and pull info out
> of it.  I'm using Email::Simple and Email:MIME and I can read the
> emails fine but I'm having problems accessing the 'parts' of the email
> without just dumping the entire message to a raw format in a variable
> and string searching it for what I want.  My problem is that I'm not
> sure how to 'use' the data objects returned by the module.  My example
> is that I  get a message in using NET::POP3 and make it into a string
> using join and then I pass the string into Email::MIME and make a new
> object?? out of it I can check the subject of the main message using ->header_pairs \
> and then pulling the subject out of the list it makes 
> but there is a seconday subject because the emails I'm working on will
> be returned emails meaning they failed in getting through somehow and
> I need to pull the original subject line to find out some info.  I
> tried using ->parts on it but here is where I'm stuck as I don't
> understand how to handle what I get back.  The docs say that parts
> pass back, and I quote:
> 
> "This returns a list of Email::MIME objects reflecting the parts of
> the message."
> 
> I'm just not sure how I go about pulling the info out of the three
> hash?? references??  I'm getting back.
> 
> Can anyone point me in the right direction?
> 
> Thanks

Well I kinda figured out this part on my own, just had to feed back
the object through Email::MIME and got what I needed.  I need help on
another email problem but I'll start a new post for that.

Bill


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