Count Messages in Inbox

[Perl Beginner]

Hello all,
I'm coding in Perl. And I'm trying to figure out how to simply count the number of messages in an inbox folder that is already open. i've been playing around with Mail::Box::Manager, but can't seem to put it all together. This is what i have so far:

[HTML]use Mail::Box::Manager;

my $mgr = new Mail::Box::Manager;
my $folder = $mgr -> folder => 'Inbox';

my $messages = $folder->messages;[/HTML]

I have no idea if i'm on the right track or not. but i thought the last line would give me the number of messages.

Help please!

Terra

[numberwhun]

Hello all,
I'm coding in Perl. And I'm trying to figure out how to simply count the number of messages in an inbox folder that is already open. i've been playing around with Mail::Box::Manager, but can't seem to put it all together. This is what i have so far:

[HTML]use Mail::Box::Manager;

my $mgr = new Mail::Box::Manager;
my $folder = $mgr -> folder => 'Inbox';

my $messages = $folder->messages;[/HTML]

I have no idea if i'm on the right track or not. but i thought the last line would give me the number of messages.

Help please!

Terra

First, if you haven't already, you may want to read the Mail::Box Overview as is suggested in the other Mail::Box modules. If you look in that overview, you will see reference to another module called Mail::Box::File. To do what you are asking, you may want to check out that module.

Unfortunately, I have not played with any of these modules, but that is just my take on it.

Regards,

Jeff