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NAME

Mail::Box::Dir::Message - one message in a directory organized folder

INHERITANCE

Mail::Box::Dir::Message
  is a Mail::Box::Message
  is a Mail::Message
  is a Mail::Reporter

Mail::Box::Dir::Message is extended by
  Mail::Box::MH::Message
  Mail::Box::Maildir::Message

SYNOPSIS

my $folder = new Mail::Box::MH ...
my $message = $folder->message(10);

DESCRIPTION

A Mail::Box::Dir::Message is a base class for one message in a directory organized folder; each message is stored in a separate file. There are no objects of type Mail::Box::Dir::Message, only extensions are allowed to be created.

At the moment, three of these extended message types are implemented:

  • Mail::Box::MH::Message

    which represents one message in a Mail::Box::MH folder. MH folders are very, very simple.... and hence not sophisticated nor fast.

  • Mail::Box::Maildir::Message

    which represents one message in a Mail::Box::Maildir folder. Flags are kept in the message's filename. It is stateless, so you will never loose a message.

  • Mail::Box::Netzwert::Message

    which represents one message in a Mail::Box::Netzwert folder. As advantage, it stores pre-parsed information in the message file. As disadvantage: the code is not GPLed (yet).

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone(OPTIONS)

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->new(OPTIONS)

    Create a messages in a directory organized folder.

    Option    --Defined in     --Default
body        Mail::Message    undef
body_type   Mail::Box::Message  <from folder>
deleted     Mail::Message    <false>
field_type  Mail::Message    undef
filename                     undef
fix_header                   false
folder      Mail::Box::Message  <required>
head        Mail::Message    undef
head_type   Mail::Message    Mail::Message::Head::Complete
labels      Mail::Message    {}
log         Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
messageId   Mail::Message    undef
modified    Mail::Message    <false>
size        Mail::Box::Message  undef
trace       Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
trusted     Mail::Message    <false>

    . body => OBJECT

    . body_type => CODE|CLASS

    . deleted => BOOLEAN

    . field_type => CLASS

    . filename => FILENAME

      The file where the message is stored in.

    . fix_header => BOOLEAN

    . folder => FOLDER

    . head => OBJECT

    . head_type => CLASS

    . labels => ARRAY|HASH

    . log => LEVEL

    . messageId => STRING

    . modified => BOOLEAN

    . size => INTEGER

    . trace => LEVEL

    . trusted => BOOLEAN

Constructing a message

$obj->bounce([RG-OBJECT|OPTIONS])

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->build([MESSAGE|PART|BODY], CONTENT)

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->buildFromBody(BODY, [HEAD], HEADERS)

$obj->forward(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardAttach(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardEncapsulate(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardInline(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardNo(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardPostlude

$obj->forwardPrelude

$obj->forwardSubject(STRING)

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->read(FILEHANDLE|SCALAR|REF-SCALAR|ARRAY-OF-LINES, OPTIONS)

$obj->rebuild(OPTIONS)

$obj->reply(OPTIONS)

$obj->replyPrelude([STRING|FIELD|ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-THINGS])

$obj->replySubject(STRING)

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->replySubject(STRING)

The message

$obj->container

$obj->copyTo(FOLDER, OPTIONS)

$obj->filename([FILENAME])

    Returns the name of the file in which this message is actually stored. This will return undef when the message is not stored in a file.

$obj->folder([FOLDER])

$obj->isDummy

$obj->isPart

$obj->messageId

$obj->moveTo(FOLDER, OPTIONS)

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

$obj->send([MAILER], OPTIONS)

$obj->seqnr([INTEGER])

$obj->size

$obj->toplevel

$obj->write([FILEHANDLE])

The header

$obj->bcc

$obj->cc

$obj->date

$obj->destinations

$obj->from

$obj->get(FIELDNAME)

$obj->guessTimestamp

$obj->head([HEAD])

$obj->nrLines

$obj->sender

$obj->study(FIELDNAME)

$obj->subject

$obj->timestamp

$obj->to

The body

$obj->body([BODY])

$obj->decoded(OPTIONS)

$obj->encode(OPTIONS)

$obj->isMultipart

$obj->isNested

$obj->parts(['ALL'|'ACTIVE'|'DELETED'|'RECURSE'|FILTER])

Flags

$obj->delete

$obj->deleted([BOOLEAN])

$obj->isDeleted

$obj->isModified

$obj->label(LABEL|PAIRS)

$obj->labels

$obj->labelsToStatus

$obj->modified([BOOLEAN])

$obj->statusToLabels

The whole message as text

$obj->file

$obj->lines

$obj->printStructure([FILEHANDLE|undef],[INDENT])

$obj->string

Internals

$obj->clonedFrom

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->coerce(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

$obj->create(FILENAME)

    Create the message in the specified file. If the message already has a filename and is not modified, then a move is tried. Otherwise the message is printed to the file. If the FILENAME already exists for this message, nothing is done. In any case, the new FILENAME is set as well.

$obj->diskDelete

$obj->isDelayed

$obj->loadBody

    This method is called by the autoloader when the body of the message is needed.

$obj->loadHead

    This method is called by the autoloader when the header of the message is needed.

$obj->parser

    Create and return a parser for this message (-file).

$obj->readBody(PARSER, HEAD [, BODYTYPE])

$obj->readFromParser(PARSER, [BODYTYPE])

$obj->readHead(PARSER [,CLASS])

$obj->recursiveRebuildPart(PART, OPTIONS)

$obj->storeBody(BODY)

$obj->takeMessageId([STRING])

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

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

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

$obj->errors

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

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->logPriority(LEVEL)

$obj->logSettings

$obj->notImplemented

$obj->report([LEVEL])

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

$obj->shortSize([VALUE])

Mail::Box::Dir::Message->shortSize([VALUE])

$obj->shortString

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

$obj->warnings

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

$obj->destruct

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Cannot coerce a $class object into a $class object

Error: Cannot create parser for $filename.

    For some reason (the previous message have told you already) it was not possible to create a message parser for the specified filename.

Error: Cannot include forward source as $include.

    Unknown alternative for the forward(include). Valid choices are NO, INLINE, ATTACH, and ENCAPSULATE.

Error: Cannot include reply source as $include.

    Unknown alternative for the include option of reply(). Valid choices are NO, INLINE, and ATTACH.

Error: Cannot write message to $filename: $!

    When a modified or new message is written to disk, it is first written to a temporary file in the folder directory. For some reason, it is impossible to create this file.

Error: Failed to move $new to $filename: $!

    When a modified or new message is written to disk, it is first written to a temporary file in the folder directory. Then, the new file is moved to replace the existing file. Apparently, the latter fails.

Error: Method bounce requires To, Cc, or Bcc

    The message bounce() method forwards a received message off to someone else without modification; you must specified it's new destination. If you have the urge not to specify any destination, you probably are looking for reply(). When you wish to modify the content, use forward().

Error: Method forwardAttach requires a preamble

Error: Method forwardEncapsulate requires a preamble

Error: No address to create forwarded to.

    If a forward message is created, a destination address must be specified.

Error: No default mailer found to send message.

    The message send() mechanism had not enough information to automatically find a mail transfer agent to sent this message. Specify a mailer explicitly using the via options.

Error: No rebuild rule $name defined.

Error: Only build() Mail::Message's; they are not in a folder yet

    You may wish to construct a message to be stored in a some kind of folder, but you need to do that in two steps. First, create a normal Mail::Message, and then add it to the folder. During this Mail::Box::addMessage() process, the message will get coerce()-d into the right message type, adding storage information and the like.

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 delayed body.

    For some reason, the header of the message could be read, but the body cannot. Probably the file has disappeared or the permissions were changed during the progress of the program.

Error: Unable to read delayed head.

    Mail::Box tries to be lazy with respect to parsing messages. When a directory organized folder is opened, only the filenames of messages are collected. At first use, the messages are read from their file. Apperently, a message is used for the first time here, but has disappeared or is unreadible for some other reason.

Error: coercion starts with some object

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.074, built on September 21, 2007. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2007 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html