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.