NAME

Mail::ISO2022JP - compose ISO-2022-JP encoded email

SYNOPSIS

  use Mail::ISO2022JP;
  
  $mail = Mail::ISO2022JP->new();
  # compose a mail containing Japanese letters.
  $mail->compose(
    'Yamada Taro', 'taro@cpan.tld',
    'Kawabata Hanako', 'hanako@cpan.tld',
    'Kon-nichi-ha',
    'Ogenki desuka? Senjitsu ha Osewani nari mashita...'
  );
  # output the composed mail
  print $mail->output();

DESCRIPTION

This module is mainly for Japanese perl programmers. Because of its 7bit/US-ASCII character based regulation, an internet mail is required to compose through some encoding process when it includes non-7bit/US-ASCII characters. ISO-2022-JP is one of Japanese character encoding, which is usually used among Japanese people for the mail encoding. For ISO-2022-JP is 7bit encoding, to use it in mail message body has no problem. But it still has problem to use ISO-2022-JP in mail headers, since mail headers should be expressed only in US-ASCII characters. Then we should encode ISO-2022-JP header data (ex. sender name, recipient name, subject) again with MIME Base64 method. This module automates those kinds of operations.

METHODS

new()

Creates a new object.

compose($sender_name, $sender_address, $recipient_name, $recipient_address, $subject, $message)

$sender_address and $recipient_address should be valid as email address. $sender_name, $recipient_name, $subject, $message can contain Japanese characters. Note that this module runs under Unicode/UTF-8 environment, you should input these data in UTF-8 character encoding.

date($date_string)

Specifies mail origination date. This method must used before compose() method when you want to specify this value. Of course, date-time format should be compliant to the format of RFC2822 specification. It is like blow:

 Mon, 10 Mar 2003 18:48:06 +0900

Origination date is not a essential information for email (sendmail program will add automatically on posting). Don't forget to quote the string.

output()

Outputs already composed mail data.

post() *EXPERIMENTAL*

Posts a mail using sendmail program. At the default setting, it is supposed that sendmail program's name is `sendmail' under the systems's PATH environmental variable. You can specify exact location with sendmail() method.

sendmail($path) *EXPERIMENTAL*

Specifies sendmail location. ex. '/usr/bin/sendmail'

SEE ALSO

Encode

MIME::Base64

RFC2045: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2045.txt (MIME)

RFC2046: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2046.txt (MIME)

RFC2047: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2047.txt (MIME)

RFC2822: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2822.txt (date-time)

NOTES

This module runs under Unicode/UTF-8 environment (then Perl5.8 or later is required), you should input data in UTF-8 character encoding.

AUTHOR

Masanori HATA <lovewing@geocities.co.jp> (Saitama, JAPAN)

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 2003 Masanori HATA. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.