NAME

Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep - A GNU grep-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,
    'enable_grep' => 1,
  } );

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 GNU grep-based mbox folder reader. It can only be used when GNU grep is installed on the system. Users must not instantiate this class directly--use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The base MessageParser module will automatically manage the use of grep and non-grep implementations.

METHODS AND FUNCTIONS

The following methods and functions are specific to the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep 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 file_name parameter is the filename of the mailbox. The 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