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Mail::Internet(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    Mail::Internet(3)

NAME
       Mail::Internet - manipulate email messages
SYNOPSIS
         use Mail::Internet;
         my $msg = Mail::Internet->new(\*STDIN);
DESCRIPTION
       This package implements reading, creating, manipulating, and writing
       email messages.  Sometimes, the implementation tries to be too smart,
       but in the general case it works as expected.
       If you start writing a new application, you should use the Mail::Box
       distribution, which has more features and handles messages much better
       according to the RFCs.  See <http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/>;.  You
       may also chose MIME::Entity, to get at least some multipart support in
       your application.
METHODS
   Constructors
       $obj->dup()
           Duplicate the message as a whole.  Both header and body will be
           deep-copied: a new Mail::Internet object is returned.
       $obj->extract(ARRAY-of-LINES)
           Extract header and body from an ARRAY of message lines.  Requires
           an object already created with new(), which contents will get
           overwritten.
       $obj->new([ARG], [OPTIONS])
       Mail::Internet->new([ARG], [OPTIONS])
           ARG is optional and may be either a file descriptor (reference to a
           GLOB) or a reference to an array. If given the new object will be
           initialized with headers and body either from the array of read
           from the file descriptor.
           The Mail::Header::new() OPTIONS "Modify", "MailFrom" and
           "FoldLength" may also be given.
            -Option--Default
             Body    []
             Header  undef
           Body => ARRAY-of-LINES
             The value of this option should be a reference to an array which
             contains the lines for the body of the message. Each line should
             be terminated with "\n" (LF). If Body is given then
             "Mail::Internet" will not attempt to read the body from "ARG"
             (even if it is specified).
           Header => Mail::Header
             The value of this option should be a Mail::Header object. If
             given then "Mail::Internet" will not attempt to read a mail
             header from "ARG", if it was specified.
       $obj->read(FILEHANDLE)
           Read a message from the FILEHANDLE into an already existing message
           object.  Better use new() with the FILEHANDLE as first argument.
   Accessors
       $obj->body([BODY])
           Returns the body of the message. This is a reference to an array.
           Each entry in the array represents a single line in the message.
           If BODY is given, it can be a reference to an array or an array,
           then the body will be replaced. If a reference is passed, it is
           used directly and not copied, so any subsequent changes to the
           array will change the contents of the body.
       $obj->head()
           Returns the "Mail::Header" object which holds the headers for the
           current message
   Processing the message as a whole
       $obj->as_mbox_string([ALREADY_ESCAPED])
           Returns the message as a string in mbox format.  "ALREADY_ESCAPED",
           if given and true, indicates that escape_from() has already been
           called on this object.
       $obj->as_string()
           Returns the message as a single string.
       $obj->print([FILEHANDLE])
           Print the header, body or whole message to file descriptor
           FILEHANDLE.  $fd should be a reference to a GLOB. If FILEHANDLE is
           not given the output will be sent to STDOUT.
           example:
               $mail->print( \*STDOUT );  # Print message to STDOUT
       $obj->print_body([FILEHANDLE])
           Print only the body to the FILEHANDLE (default STDOUT).
       $obj->print_header([FILEHANDLE])
           Print only the header to the FILEHANDLE (default STDOUT).
   Processing the header
       Most of these methods are simply wrappers around methods provided by
       Mail::Header.
       $obj->add(PAIRS-of-FIELD)
           The PAIRS are field-name and field-content.  For each PAIR,
           Mail::Header::add() is called.  All fields are added after existing
           fields.  The last addition is returned.
       $obj->combine(TAG, [WITH])
           See Mail::Header::combine().
       $obj->delete(TAG, [TAGs])
           Delete all fields with the name TAG.  Mail::Header::delete() is
           doing the work.
       $obj->fold([LENGTH])
           See Mail::Header::fold().
       $obj->fold_length([TAG], [LENGTH])
           See Mail::Header::fold_length().
       $obj->get(TAG, [TAGs])
           In LIST context, all fields with the name TAG are returned.  In
           SCALAR context, only the first field which matches the earliest TAG
           is returned.  Mail::Header::get() is called to collect the data.
       $obj->header([ARRAY-of-LINES])
           See Mail::Header::header().
       $obj->replace(PAIRS-of-FIELD)
           The PAIRS are field-name and field-content.  For each PAIR,
           Mail::Header::replace() is called with INDEX 0. If a FIELD is
           already in the header, it will be removed first.  Do not specified
           the same field-name twice.
   Processing the body
       $obj->remove_sig([NLINES])
           Attempts to remove a users signature from the body of a message. It
           does this by looking for a line equal to '-- ' within the last
           "NLINES" of the message. If found then that line and all lines
           after it will be removed. If "NLINES" is not given a default value
           of 10 will be used. This would be of most use in auto-reply
           scripts.
       $obj->sign(OPTIONS)
           Add your signature to the body.  remove_sig() will strip existing
           signatures first.
            -Option   --Default
             File       undef
             Signature  []
           File => FILEHANDLE
             Take from the FILEHANDLE all lines starting from the first "--".
           Signature => STRING|ARRAY-of-LINES
       $obj->tidy_body()
           Removes all leading and trailing lines from the body that only
           contain white spaces.
   High-level functionality
       $obj->escape_from()
           It can cause problems with some applications if a message contains
           a line starting with `From ', in particular when attempting to
           split a folder.  This method inserts a leading "`"'> on anyline
           that matches the regular expression "/^"*From/>
       $obj->nntppost([OPTIONS])
           Post an article via NNTP.  Requires Net::NNTP to be installed.
            -Option--Default
             Debug   <false>
             Host    <required>
             Port    119
           Debug => BOOLEAN
             Debug value to pass to Net::NNTP, see Net::NNTP
           Host => HOSTNAME|Net::NNTP object
             Name of NNTP server to connect to, or a Net::NNTP object to use.
           Port => INTEGER
             Port number to connect to on remote host
       $obj->reply(OPTIONS)
           Create a new object with header initialised for a reply to the
           current object. And the body will be a copy of the current message
           indented.
           The ".mailhdr" file in your home directory (if exists) will be read
           first, to provide defaults.
            -Option  --Default
             Exclude   []
             Indent    '>'
             Keep      []
             ReplyAll  false
           Exclude => ARRAY-of-FIELDS
             Remove the listed FIELDS from the produced message.
           Indent => STRING
             Use as indentation string.  The string may contain "%%" to get a
             single "%", %f to get the first from name, %F is the first
             character of %f, %l is the last name, %L its first character, %n
             the whole from string, and %I the first character of each of the
             names in the from string.
           Keep => ARRAY-of-FIELDS
             Copy the listed FIELDS from the original message.
           ReplyAll => BOOLEAN
             Automatically include all To and Cc addresses of the original
             mail, excluding those mentioned in the Bcc list.
       $obj->send([TYPE, [ARGS...]])
           Send a Mail::Internet message using Mail::Mailer.  TYPE and ARGS
           are passed on to Mail::Mailer::new().
       $obj->smtpsend([OPTIONS])
           Send a Mail::Internet message using direct SMTP.  to the given
           ADDRESSES, each can be either a string or a reference to a list of
           email addresses. If none of "To", <Cc> or "Bcc" are given then the
           addresses are extracted from the message being sent.
           The return value will be a list of email addresses that the message
           was sent to. If the message was not sent the list will be empty.
           Requires Net::SMTP and Net::Domain to be installed.
            -Option  --Default
             Bcc       undef
             Cc        undef
             Debug     <false>
             Hello     localhost.localdomain
             Host      $ENV{SMTPHOSTS}
             MailFrom  Mail::Util::mailaddress()
             Port      25
             To        undef
           Bcc => ADDRESSES
           Cc => ADDRESSES
           Debug => BOOLEAN
             Debug value to pass to Net::SMPT, see <Net::SMTP>
           Hello => STRING
             Send a HELO (or EHLO) command to the server with the given name.
           Host => HOSTNAME
             Name of the SMTP server to connect to, or a Net::SMTP object to
             use
             If "Host" is not given then the SMTP host is found by attempting
             connections first to hosts specified in $ENV{SMTPHOSTS}, a colon
             separated list, then "mailhost" and "localhost".
           MailFrom => ADDRESS
             The e-mail address which is used as sender.  By default,
             Mail::Util::mailaddress() provides the address of the sender.
           Port => INTEGER
             Port number to connect to on remote host
           To => ADDRESSES
       $obj->unescape_from(())
           Remove the escaping added by escape_from().
SEE ALSO
       This module is part of the MailTools distribution,
       http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.
AUTHORS
       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark
       Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further
       development.
       Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas AT oslonett.no>.  Mail::Field::AddrList by
       Peter Orbaek <poe AT cit.dk>.  Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
       <Tim.Bunce AT ig.uk>.  For other contributors see ChangeLog.
LICENSE
       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr AT pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark
       Overmeer <perl AT overmeer.net>.
       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
       under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.16.3                      2012-12-21                 Mail::Internet(3)