NAME

Mail::Message::Body::File - body of a message temporarily stored in a file

INHERITANCE

Mail::Message::Body::File
  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 find the description of extra functionality you have when a message is stored in a file.

Storing a whole message is a file is useful when the body is large. Although access through a file is slower, it is saving a lot of memory.

OVERLOADED

overload: ""

overload: '==' and '!='

overload: @{}

overload: bool

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone

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

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

    . based_on => BODY

    . charset => STRING

    . checked => BOOLEAN

    . data => ARRAY-OF-LINES | STRING

    . description => STRING|FIELD

    . 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->description([STRING|FIELD])

$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->endsOnNewline

$obj->file

$obj->lines

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

$obj->printEscapedFrom(FILEHANDLE)

$obj->string

$obj->stripTrailingNewline

$obj->write(OPTIONS)

Internals

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

Mail::Message::Body::File->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]])

$obj->tempFilename([FILENAME])

    Returns the name of the temporary file which is used to store this body.

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

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

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

$obj->errors

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

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

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

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

$obj->logSettings

$obj->notImplemented

$obj->report([LEVEL])

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

$obj->warnings

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

    The temporary file is automatically removed when the body is not required anymore.

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Cannot write to temporary body file $filename: $!

    The message body is to be stored in a temporary file (probably because it is a large body), but for the indicated reason, this file cannot be created.

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 file: $!

    A Mail::Message::Body::File object is to be created from a named file, but it is impossible to read that file to retrieve the lines within. Therefore, no copy to a temporary file can be made.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.079, built on November 28, 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