NAME

Mail::Message::Construct::Text - capture a Mail::Message as text

SYNOPSIS

my $text = $msg->string;
my $text = "$msg";   # via overload

my @text = $msg->lines;
my @text = @$lines;  # via overload

my $fh   = $msg->file;
my $line = <$fh>;

$msg->printStructure;

DESCRIPTION

Complex functionality on Mail::Message objects is implemented in different files which are autoloaded. This file implements the functionality related to creating message replies.

METHODS

The whole message as text

$obj->file

Returns the message as file-handle.

$obj->lines

Returns the whole message as set of lines. In LIST context, copies of the lines are returned. In SCALAR context, a reference to an array of lines is returned.

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

Print the structure of a message to the specified FILEHANDLE or the selected filehandle. When explicitly undef is specified as handle, then the output will be returned as string.

The message's subject and the types of all composing parts are displayed.

INDENT specifies the initial indentation string: it is added in front of each line. The INDENT must contain at least one white-space.

example:

my $msg = ...;
$msg->printStructure(\*OUTPUT);

$msg->printStructure;

my $struct = $msg->printStructure(undef);

# Possible output for one message:
multipart/mixed: forwarded message from Pietje Puk (1550 bytes)
   text/plain (164 bytes)
   message/rfc822 (1043 bytes)
      multipart/alternative: A multipart alternative (942 bytes)
         text/plain (148 bytes, deleted)
         text/html (358 bytes)

$obj->string

Returns the whole message as string.

Flags

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.078, built on November 09, 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