NAME

Mail::Message::Field::Flex - one line of a message header

CLASS HIERARCHY

Mail::Message::Field::Flex
is a Mail::Message::Field

SYNOPSIS

See L<Mail::Message::Field>

DESCRIPTION

See Mail::Message::Field. This is the flexible implementation of a field: it can easily be extended because it stores its data in a hash and the constructor (new) and initialiser (init) are split. However, you pay the price in performance. The ::Fast packages is faster (as the name predicts).

METHOD INDEX

Methods prefixed with an abbreviation are described in Mail::Message::Field (MMF).

The general methods for Mail::Message::Field::Flex objects:

MMF addresses                        MMF name
MMF attribute NAME [, VALUE]         MMF new ...
MMF body                             MMF print [FILEHANDLE]
MMF comment [STRING]                 MMF toDate TIME
MMF content                          MMF toInt
MMF folded [ARRAY-OF-LINES]          MMF toString

The extra methods for extension writers:

MMF clone                            MMF nrLines
MMF isStructured                     MMF setWrapLength CHARS
MMF newNoCheck NAME, BODY, COMM...   MMF size

METHODS

SEE ALSO

Mail::Box-Overview

For support and additional documentation, see http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

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 2.015.

Copyright (c) 2001-2002 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.