The one where you say
"It's possible I'm losing the plot somewhere"? I have to agree. You have a conspiracy theory about Outlook and
MIME::Parser
getting together to mess up your data. I assure you that better programmers than you created both of those, and
MIME::Parser
doesn't give a damn about where its input data came from, so
"I think it's a measure to undo a mess Outlook makes" is just nonsense. You have never given us anywhere near enough information to diagnose the problem, so it's your decision to make do with a nasty hack that appears to give you the correct results. —
Borodin 36 secs ago