Does perl mail imapclient have the from email address
A great question about Perl and email!
Yes, the Mail::IMAPClient
module in Perl does provide access to the From
email address.
When you connect to an IMAP server using Mail::IMAPClient
, you can retrieve the From
email address of a message using the fetch
method. Specifically, you can use the BODYSTRUCTURE
fetch attribute to retrieve the message's headers, including the From
header.
Here's an example:
use Mail::IMAPClient;
my $imap = Mail::IMAPClient->new(
Server => 'imap.example.com',
User => 'your_username',
Password => 'your_password'
) or die "Cannot connect to IMAP server: $@";
my $msg_num = 1; # Replace with the message number you want to retrieve
my $msg = $imap->fetch($msg_num, 'BODYSTRUCTURE');
if (defined $msg) {
my $headers = $msg->{BODYSTRUCTURE}->{HEADERS};
my $from = $headers->{From};
print "From: $from\n";
}
In this example, we connect to the IMAP server using Mail::IMAPClient
, then fetch the message with the specified message number using the fetch
method. We then extract the BODYSTRUCTURE
attribute, which contains the message's headers, including the From
header. Finally, we print the From
email address to the console.
Note that the From
header may contain multiple email addresses, separated by commas. If you need to extract individual email addresses from the From
header, you can use a regular expression or a parsing library like Email::Address
.