There are now packages for PPM available as well! See below the bits on installation to learn how to install those. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Mail::MboxParser is a module for working with UNIX-flavoured mailboxes. This document describes version 0.51. Its purpose is to _easily_ extract messages from a mailbox with _simple_ access to header fields, body and MIME-parts. It is for those people who find the above two module-sets too confusing and heavy-weighted. See the list of provided methods below. It is particularly easy to deal with any kind of attached files. See the supplied store_att.pl script for an example. Prerequisites: -------------- + MIME::Tools (probably >= 5.0) + MIME::QuotedPrint (don't know which version) optional: + Mail::Mbox::MessageParser (highly recommended but not necessary) + URI::Find if you want to use Mail::MboxParser::Mail::Body->extract_urls + Encode (standard module for >= perl5.8.0) Installation: ------------- 'make'-enabled systems: ----------------------- Un'tar xfz' the module and 'cd' into the new directory Mail-MboxParser-$VERSION. Then install: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install Win-users having an 'nmake' installed can also do the above, given the fact they replace 'make' with 'nmake' in the above list. Win-systems: ------------ There should be ppm distributions for ActivePerl under Windows. For ActivePerl 5.6.x: ppm install http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/tassilo.parseval/ppm/mail-mboxparser/0.47/5.6/Mail-MboxParser.ppd For ActivePerl 5.8.x: ppm install http://www-users.rwth-aachen.de/tassilo.parseval/ppm/mail-mboxparser/0.47/5.8/Mail-MboxParser.ppd If the appropriate package cannot be found, please bug the author. Autoloader: ----------- Read the Mail::MboxParser::Mail docs for invoking external methods. The autoloading-mechanism will take care that the below and other things will work: $mail->effective_type; # from MIME::Entity Have a look into the eg-directory of the package for some (or one) example(s). Contact: -------- Bugs, feature requests, questions, comments etc. should be directly mailed to me. Tassilo v. Parseval