NAME

Mail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash

INHERITANCE

SYNOPSIS

As an array:

use Mail::Box::Tie;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY => $folder;
tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
print $inbox[3];

or as hash:

tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::HASH => $folder;
tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
print $inbox{'<12379.124879@example.com>'};

DESCRIPTION

The use of Mail::Box::Tie is deprecated, because it is succeeded by two separate modules: Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY and Mail::Box::Tie::HASH. However, this module still works.

Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just access them as one? Or, the order is not important, but the message-ids are (give relations): why not access them from a hash based on this message-id? Programs using one of these ties will look simpler than programs using the more traditional method calls.

METHODS

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.081, built on February 25, 2008. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2008 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