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/ Mail::Message::Part

NAME

Mail::Message::Part - a part of a message, but a message by itself

INHERITANCE

Mail::Message::Part
  is a Mail::Message
  is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

my Mail::Message $message = ...;
if($message->isMultipart) {
   my Mail::Message::Part $part;

   foreach $part ($message->body->parts) {
      $part->print(\*OUT);
      my $attached_head = $part->head;
      my $attached_body = $part->body;      # encoded as read
      my $attached_body = $part->decoded;   # transfer-encoding removed
   }
}

DESCRIPTION

A Mail::Message::Part object contains a message which is included in the body of an other message. For instance attachments are parts.

READ Mail::Message FIRST. A part is a special message: it has a reference to its parent message, and will usually not be sub-classed into mail folder specific variants.

METHODS

$obj->printEscapedFrom(FILEHANDLE)

Constructors

$obj->clone(OPTIONS)

Mail::Message::Part->new(OPTIONS)

    Create a message part.

    Option    --Defined in     --Default
body        Mail::Message    undef
body_type   Mail::Message    Mail::Message::Body::Lines
container                    <required>
deleted     Mail::Message    <false>
field_type  Mail::Message    undef
head        Mail::Message    <empty header>
head_type   Mail::Message    Mail::Message::Head::Complete
labels      Mail::Message    {}
log         Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
messageId   Mail::Message    undef
modified    Mail::Message    <false>
trace       Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
trusted     Mail::Message    <false>

    . body => OBJECT

    . body_type => CLASS

    . container => BODY

    . deleted => BOOLEAN

    . field_type => CLASS

    . head => OBJECT

    . head_type => CLASS

    . labels => ARRAY|HASH

    . log => LEVEL

    . messageId => STRING

    . modified => BOOLEAN

    . trace => LEVEL

    . trusted => BOOLEAN

Constructing a message

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

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

Mail::Message::Part->buildFromBody(BODY, CONTAINER, HEADERS)

    Shape a message part around a BODY. Bodies have information about their content in them, which is used to construct a header for the message. Next to that, more HEADERS can be specified. No headers are obligatory. No extra headers are fabricated automatically.

    example:

    my $multi = Mail::Message::Body::Multipart->new;
my $part  = Mail::Message::Part->buildFromBody($body, $multi);

$obj->forward(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardAttach(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardEncapsulate(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardInline(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardNo(OPTIONS)

$obj->forwardPostlude

$obj->forwardPrelude

$obj->forwardSubject(STRING)

Mail::Message::Part->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::Message::Part->replySubject(STRING)

The message

$obj->container

$obj->isDummy

$obj->isPart

$obj->messageId

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

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

$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::Message::Part->coerce(BODY|MESSAGE, MULTIPART, HEADERS)

    Transforms a BODY or MESSAGE to a real message part. The MULTIPART refers to the parental body.

    When ta BODY is specified, extra HEADERS can be supplied as well. Bodies are coerced into message parts by calling buildFromBody(). If you specify a MESSAGE residing in a folder, this message will automatically be cloned.

$obj->isDelayed

$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::Message::Part->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

$obj->errors

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

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

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Message::Part->logPriority(LEVEL)

$obj->logSettings

$obj->notImplemented

$obj->report([LEVEL])

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

$obj->shortSize([VALUE])

Mail::Message::Part->shortSize([VALUE])

$obj->shortString

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

$obj->warnings

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

$obj->destruct

    Message parts can not be destructed per part: only whole messages can be forcefully freed from memory. Of course, you can delete() separate parts, which only sets a flag not to write a part again. Furthermore, you may cosider rebuild() to get rit of deleted parts.

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

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: 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: You cannot destruct message parts, only whole messages

    Message parts can not be destructed per part: only whole messages can be forcefully freed from memory. Consider delete() or rebuild().

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