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Perl to read embedded email ??

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ylacton

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Oct 16, 2009
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Hi

If you have an email that includes an attached email, how can you use Perl to [highlight]read/parse that embedded email[/highlight]?

I tried to use WIN32::OLE, and I know you can get the mail body this way:

$mailbody=$folder->Items->Item($i)->Body;

If this email has attached email and I'm only interested to get the mail body of that embedded email, I can use following line to get the attached email:

my $attach = $folder->Items->Item($i)->Attachments();

After this line runs the $attach is that embedded email (and I can save the $attach to a text file), but how to open it to get its email body? I tried following but none of them worked:

$mailbody=$attach->Body; # not working
$mailbody=$attach->Items->Item(1)->Body; # not working
$mailbody = $folder->Items->Item($i)->Attachments()->Body; # not working

I got stuck here. It'll be highly appreciated if somebody tells me where is wrong or where to find some sample codes.
 
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