#!/usr/local/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Mail::POP3Client; use MIME::Parser; my $pop = new Mail::POP3Client( USER => "user", PASSWORD => "password", HOST => "pop3.server" ); ## for HeadAndBodyToFile() to use my $fh = new IO::Handle(); ## Initialize stuff for MIME::Parser; my $outputdir = "./mimemail"; my $parser = new MIME::Parser; $parser->output_dir($outputdir); my $i; ## process all messages in pop3 inbox for ($i = 1; $i <= $pop->Count(); $i++) { open (MAILOUT, ">pop3.msg$i"); $fh->fdopen( fileno( MAILOUT ), "w" ); ## write current msg to file $pop->HeadAndBodyToFile( $fh, $i ); close MAILOUT; ## MIME::Parser handles only one msg at-a-time open (MAILIN, "read(\*MAILIN); close MAILIN; }