[Tutor] strip an email

[nephish]

Does anyone know how to strip everything off of an email?
i have a little app that i am working on to read an email message and 
write the
body of a message to a log file.
each email this address gets is only about three to five lines long.
but i cannot seem to get just the body filtered through.
i get all the headers, the path, what spam-wall it went through, etc...

any suggestions would be greatly appreciated .
thanks