The latest gtk2 version of Sylpheed-Claws has a working Perl plugin for perl-based filtering. Here is the < a href= http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/sylpheed-claws/plugins/perl/sc_perl.pod?rev=1.4.2.2&only_with_tag=gtk2&view=markup>perldoc

It may be of interest to those who want to check out a working example of an embedded perl interpreter, or someone who would like to use Perl for mail filtering.