email interface into a module?

[Craig]

I am using Bugzilla 3.0.1 (yes, I am upgrading to 3.0.2 this week. ;> )

We would like to enable the "email interface". However, our mail service
is outsourced. I have written a simple script to talk to mail server
(via IMAP) and grab the messages.

Obviously, I can then use "email_in.pl" via a system call. But, that
seems kinda klunky... (But, it is a good short-term solution.)

I don't want to re-write the parsing routines or the logic checks. (And
thus use the XML service on the bugzilla server.) I want to be able to
*get* the emails in a custom way, do my own logic checks, and then have
something else to parse the body and load it into the DB.

So, what if the bulk of the "email_in.pl" code was moved into a module
(Bugzilla::EmailIn???)?

And then email_in.pl was changed to be just a "wrapper" that would read
from STDIN, etc. But, the bulk of the work would be in the module (and
thus available as an API).

I am a pretty decent perl programmer would be more than willing to code
this up... but, wanted to ask if this sounds like a reasonable course.

TIA!
Craig