[ale] Easy way to cut body of email in perl

fletch at phydeaux.org fletch at phydeaux.org
Wed Jan 4 22:41:35 EST 2006


> I'm using procmail to pass email via STDOUT to a program that is
> supposed to do various things based on what is in the email.  I need a
> way in perl to separate the headers from the body.  Attached is a piece
> of my log file that shows email that the system received.
[... snip ...]
> Should I consider everything after "Content-Transfer-Encoding" to be the
> body?

In this case, sure.  In general, no since there's no guaranteed ordering
of headers.
Safest bet would be to use Mail::Internet or the like and let that parse
things.

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