Distribution Mail-Box

• My extended documentation: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/
• Development via GitHub: https://github.com/markov2/perl5-Mail-Box
• Sponsor me: https://markov.solutions/sponsor/index-en.html
• Download from CPAN: ftp://ftp.cpan.org/pub/CPAN/authors/id/M/MA/MARKOV/
• Indexed from CPAN: https://metacpan.org/release/Mail-Box

The MailBox suite is large, and contains various (partially optional) modules. This component organizing email message storage. All the mail-by-mail processing is covered by the Mail-Message distrubution. Sending emails can be found in Mail-Transport... and there is more.

Start reading with Mail::Box-Overview and Mail::Box-Index. Browseable documentation at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

Installing

On github, you can find the processed version for each release. But the better source is CPAN; to get it installed simply run:

   cpan -i Mail::Box

Be aware that version 4 is not fully compatible with releases pre-4 See https://github.com/markov2/perl5-Mail-Box/wiki/

Development → Release

Important to know, is that I use an extension on POD to write the manuals. The "raw" unprocessed version is visible on GitHub. It will run without problems, but does not contain manual-pages.

Releases to CPAN are different: "raw" documentation gets removed from the code and translated into real POD and clean HTML. This reformatting is implemented with the OODoc distribution (A name I chose before OpenOffice existed, sorry for the confusion)

Clone from github for the "raw" version. For instance, when you want to contribute a new feature.

Contributing

When you want to contribute to this module, you do not need to provide a perfect patch... actually: it is nearly impossible to create a patch which I will merge without modification. Usually, I need to adapt the style of code and documentation to my own strict rules.

When you submit an extension, please contribute a set with

1. code

2. code documentation

3. regression tests in t/

Please note: When you contribute in any way, you agree to transfer the copyrights to Mark Overmeer (you will get the honors in the code and/or ChangeLog). You also automatically agree that your contribution is released under the same license as this project: licensed as perl itself.

Copyright and License

This project is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/