NAME

Mail::Message::Body::String - body of a Mail::Message stored as single string

INHERITANCE

Mail::Message::Body::String
  is a Mail::Message::Body
  is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

See Mail::Message::Body

DESCRIPTION

The body (content) of a message can be stored in various ways. In this documentation you will find the description of extra functionality you have when a message is stored as a single scalar.

Storing a whole message in one string is only a smart choice when the content is small or encoded. Even when stored as a scalar, you can still treat the body as if the data is stored in lines or an external file, but this will be slower.

OVERLOADED

overload: ""

overload: '==' and '!='

overload: @{}

overload: bool

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone

Mail::Message::Body::String->new(OPTIONS)

    Option             Defined in       Default        
    based_on           L<Mail::Message::Body>  undef          
    charset            L<Mail::Message::Body>  C<'us-ascii'>  
    checked            L<Mail::Message::Body>  <false>        
    data               L<Mail::Message::Body>  undef          
    disposition        L<Mail::Message::Body>  undef          
    eol                L<Mail::Message::Body>  C<'NATIVE'>    
    file               L<Mail::Message::Body>  undef          
    log                L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'>  
    message            L<Mail::Message::Body>  undef          
    mime_type          L<Mail::Message::Body>  C<'text/plain'>
    modified           L<Mail::Message::Body>  <false>        
    trace              L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'>  
    transfer_encoding  L<Mail::Message::Body>  C<'none'>      

    . based_on BODY

    . charset STRING

    . checked BOOLEAN

    . data ARRAY-OF-LINES | STRING

    . disposition STRING|FIELD

    . eol 'CR'|'LF'|'CRLF'|'NATIVE'

    . file FILENAME|FILEHANDLE|IOHANDLE

    . log LEVEL

    . message MESSAGE

    . mime_type STRING|FIELD|MIME

    . modified BOOLEAN

    . trace LEVEL

    . transfer_encoding STRING|FIELD

Constructing a body

$obj->attach(MESSAGES, OPTIONS)

$obj->check

$obj->concatenate(COMPONENTS)

$obj->decoded(OPTIONS)

$obj->encode(OPTIONS)

$obj->encoded

$obj->eol(['CR'|'LF'|'CRLF'|'NATIVE'])

$obj->foreachLine(CODE)

$obj->stripSignature(OPTIONS)

$obj->unify(BODY)

The body

$obj->isDelayed

$obj->isMultipart

$obj->isNested

$obj->message([MESSAGE])

About the payload

$obj->charset

$obj->checked([BOOLEAN])

$obj->disposition([STRING|FIELD])

$obj->dispositionFilename([DIRECTORY])

$obj->isBinary

$obj->isText

$obj->mimeType

$obj->nrLines

$obj->size

$obj->transferEncoding([STRING|FIELD])

$obj->type([STRING|FIELD])

Access to the payload

$obj->file

$obj->lines

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

$obj->printEscapedFrom(FILEHANDLE)

$obj->string

$obj->write(OPTIONS)

Internals

$obj->addTransferEncHandler(NAME, CLASS|OBJECT)

Mail::Message::Body::String->addTransferEncHandler(NAME, CLASS|OBJECT)

$obj->contentInfoFrom(HEAD)

$obj->contentInfoTo(HEAD)

$obj->fileLocation([BEGIN,END])

$obj->getTransferEncHandler(TYPE)

$obj->isModified

$obj->load

$obj->modified([BOOLEAN])

$obj->moveLocation([DISTANCE])

$obj->read(PARSER, HEAD, BODYTYPE [,CHARS [,LINES]])

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Message::Body::String->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

$obj->errors

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Message::Body::String->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Message::Body::String->logPriority(LEVEL)

$obj->logSettings

$obj->notImplemented

$obj->report([LEVEL])

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

$obj->warnings

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

DIAGNOSTICS

Warning: No decoder defined for transfer encoding $name.

The data (message body) is encoded in a way which is not currently understood, therefore no decoding (or recoding) can take place.

Warning: No encoder defined for transfer encoding $name.

The data (message body) has been decoded, but the required encoding is unknown. The decoded data is returned.

Error: Package $package does not implement $method.

Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

Error: Unable to read file $filename for message body scalar: $!

A Mail::Message::Body::String object is to be created from a named file, but it is impossible to read that file to retrieve the lines within.

DETAILS

REFERENCES

See the MailBox website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

Distribution version 2.062. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.