From: furby <WookieTim@...>
Date: 2006-12-11T10:05:06+09:00
Subject: Newbie question about pop3 access

I am rather new to Ruby and I want to write a program to play around
with email. I can connect to my chosen pop3 server and iterate through
the mail relatively easily. But my question is how to I parse out the
mail? How do I access the From, Subject, and body? Are there any easy
way's to do this in Ruby without adding lots of new programming
libraries (I found a couple that would make this really easy, but I
don't want to drain my bank account by spending money on them), but I
can't figure out how to do this in straight Ruby...

Do I have to parse out the entire message, or are there easy commands
in the normal net/pop3 library?