NAME¶
Mail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash
SYNOPSIS¶
As an array:
use Mail::Box::Tie;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY => $folder;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder; # deprecated
print $inbox[3];
or as hash:
tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::HASH => $folder;
tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder; # deprecated
print $inbox{'<12379.124879@example.com>'};
DESCRIPTION¶
The use of "Mail::Box::Tie" is
deprecated, because it is
succeeded by two separate modules: Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY and
Mail::Box::Tie::HASH. However, this module still works.
Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just access them as
one? Or, the order is not important, but the message-ids are (give relations):
why not access them from a hash based on this message-id? Programs using one
of these ties will look simpler than programs using the more traditional
method calls.
SEE ALSO¶
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07,
2012. Website:
http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/
LICENSE¶
Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
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