NAME

Mail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash

SYNOPSIS

As an array:

use Mail::Box::Tie;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY => $folder;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
print $inbox[3];

or as hash:

tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::HASH => $folder;
tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
print $inbox{'<12379.124879@example.com>'};

DESCRIPTION

Read Mail::Box-Overview first. The use of Mail::Box::Tie is deprecated, and is replaced by two separate modules. However, this module still works.

Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just access them as one? Or, the order is not important, but the message-ids are (give relations): why not access them from a hash based on this message-id? Programs using one of these ties will look simpler than programs using the more traditional method calls.

See Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY and Mail::Box::Tie::HASH

METHOD INDEX

The general methods for Mail::Box::Tie objects:

METHODS

SEE ALSO

Mail::Box-Overview

AUTHOR

Mark Overmeer (mailbox@overmeer.net). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

VERSION

This code is beta, version 2.003.

Copyright (c) 2001 Mark Overmeer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.