NAME¶
Mail::Message::Construct::Read - read a Mail::Message from a file handle
SYNOPSIS¶
my $msg1 = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN);
my $msg2 = Mail::Message->read(\@lines);
DESCRIPTION¶
When complex methods are called on a "Mail::Message" object, this
package is autoloaded to support the reading of messages directly from any
file handle.
METHODS¶
Constructing a message¶
- Mail::Message->read(FILEHANDLE|SCALAR|REF-SCALAR|ARRAY-OF-LINES,
OPTIONS)
- Read a message from a FILEHANDLE, SCALAR, a reference to a
SCALAR, or a reference to an array of LINES. Most OPTIONS are passed to
the new() of the message which is created, but a few extra are
defined.
Please have a look at build() and buildFromBody() before
thinking about this "read" method. Use this "read"
only when you have a file-handle like STDIN to parse from, or some
external source of message lines. When you already have a separate set of
head and body lines, then "read" is certainly not your
best choice.
Some people use this method in a procmail script: the message arrives at
stdin, so we only have a filehandle. In this case, you are stuck with this
method. The message is preceded by a line which can be used as message
separator in mbox folders. See the example how to handle that one.
This method will remove "Status" and "X-Status" fields
when they appear in the source, to avoid the risk that these fields
accidentally interfere with your internal administration, which may have
security implications.
-Option --Default
body_type undef
strip_status_fields <true>
- body_type => CLASS
- Force a body type (any specific implementation of a
Mail::Message::Body) to be used to store the message content. When the
body is a multipart or nested, this will be overruled.
- strip_status_fields => BOOLEAN
- Remove the "Status" and "X-Status"
fields from the message after reading, to lower the risk that received
messages from external sources interfere with your internal
administration. If you want fields not to be stripped (you would like to
disable the stripping) you probably process folders yourself, which is a
Bad Thing!
example:
my $msg1 = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN);
my $msg2 = Mail::Message->read(\@lines, log => 'PROGRESS');
$folder->addMessages($msg1, $msg2);
my $msg3 = Mail::Message->read(<<MSG);
Subject: hello world
To: you@example.com
# warning: empty line required !!!
Hi, greetings!
MSG
# promail example
my $fromline = <STDIN>;
my $msg = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN);
my $coerced = $mboxfolder->addMessage($msg);
$coerced->fromLine($fromline);
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