NAME¶
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl - A Perl-based mbox folder reader
SYNOPSIS¶
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser;
my $filename = 'mail/saved-mail';
my $filehandle = new FileHandle($filename);
my $folder_reader =
new Mail::Mbox::MessageParser( {
'file_name' => $filename,
'file_handle' => $filehandle,
} );
die $folder_reader unless ref $folder_reader;
# Any newlines or such before the start of the first email
my $prologue = $folder_reader->prologue;
print $prologue;
# This is the main loop. It's executed once for each email
while(!$folder_reader->end_of_file());
{
my $email = $folder_reader->read_next_email();
print $email;
}
DESCRIPTION¶
This module implements a Perl-based mbox folder reader. Users must not
instantiate this class directly--use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The
base MessageParser module will automatically manage the use of faster
implementations if they can be used.
METHODS AND FUNCTIONS¶
The following methods and functions are specific to the
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl package. For additional inherited ones, see
the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser documentation.
- $ref = new( { 'file_name' => <mailbox file name>,
'file_handle' => <mailbox file handle> });
-
<file_name> - The full filename of the mailbox
<file_handle> - An opened file handle for the mailbox
The constructor for the class takes two parameters. The optional
file_name parameter is the filename of the mailbox. The required
file_handle argument is the opened file handle to the mailbox.
Returns a reference to a Mail::Mbox::MessageParser object, or a string
describing the error.
BUGS¶
No known bugs.
Contact david@coppit.org for bug reports and suggestions.
AUTHOR¶
David Coppit <david@coppit.org>.
LICENSE¶
This software is distributed under the terms of the GPL. See the file
"LICENSE" for more information.
HISTORY¶
This code was originally part of the grepmail distribution. See
http://grepmail.sf.net/ for previous versions of grepmail which included early
versions of this code.
SEE ALSO¶
Mail::Mbox::MessageParser