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NAME

Mail::Box-Index - list of all extended documentation

INHERITANCE

DESCRIPTION

All methods defined by MailBox are documented, but you still need to get a grip on the large picture: the relations between the modules and the methods. These larger explanations are included in the DETAILS of the manual pages, and listed here below. Of course, each page has a DESCRIPTION section as well, which tells some bare necessities about the module.

Only the HTML version of this manual page will list the sections.

  1. General sources of information
    • MailBox distribution overview (Mail::Box-Overview)
    • MailBox simple recepies (Mail::Box-Cookbook)

  2. Messages ( Mail::Message )
    See separate entries on header, body, fields and construction in this index below.
    • Structure of a Message
      • The header
      • The body
    • Coercing messages
    • Message object implementation
    • Message class implementation

  3. Message headers ( Mail::Message::Head )
    • Ordered header fields
    • Subsets of header fields
    • Head class implementation

  4. Message header fields ( Mail::Message::Field )
    • Field syntax
      • Folding fields
      • Structured fields
      • Comments in fields
    • Getting a field
      • Using get() field
      • Using study() field
      • Using resent groups (Mail::Message::Head::ResentGroup)
      • Mailing list fields
      • Spam fighting fields
    • The field's data
      • Access to the field
      • Using simplified field access
      • Specifying field data
    • Field class implementation

  5. Message bodies ( Mail::Message::Body )
    • Access to the body
    • Body meta information
      • Content types (MIME::Types)
      • Content transfer encoding (Mail::Message::TransferEnc)
    • Multipart bodies (Mail::Message::Body::Multipart)
    • Nested (encapsulated) messages (Mail::Message::Body::Nested)
    • Body class implementation
      • Data collector bodies
      • Complex bodies

  6. Message labels
    • Labels (Mail::Message)
      • Predefined labels (Mail::Message)
      • Storing labels folder dependent
      • Flags in filename (Mail::Box::Maildir::Message)
      • Status and X-Status fields (MBOX and POP3)
      • The .mh_sequences file (Mail::Box::MH::Labels)
      • IMAP protocol flags (Mail::Box::IMAP4::Message)
      • Other labels (IMAP4)
      • Caching labels (IMAP4) 

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      • Message processing
        • Reading a message (Mail::Message::Construct::Read)
        • Building a message (Mail::Message::Construct::Build)
        • Reply to a message (Mail::Message::Construct::Reply)
        • Creating a forward (Mail::Message::Construct::Forward)
        • Bounce a message (Mail::Message::Construct::Bounce)
        • Rebuilding a message (Mail::Message::Construct::Rebuild)
        • Convert messages
          • To and from Mail::Internet objects (Mail::Message::Convert::MailInternet)
          • To and from MIME::Entity objects(Mail::Message::Convert::MimeEntity)
          • Into HTML (Mail::Message::Convert::Html)
        • Convert body contents
          • From HTML to PostScript (Mail::Message::Convert::HtmlFormatPS)
          • From HTML into plain text (Mail::Message::Convert::HtmlFormatText)
          • Beautify text (Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat)

      • Folders ( Mail::Box ) See separate section for type specifics below.
        • Folder managers
          • Managing open folders (Mail::Box::Manager)
          • Managing a user (Mail::Box::Manage::User)
        • Folder types (Mail::Box)
          • Different kinds of folders
          • Available folder types
          • Folder class implementation
        • Folder tied as array (Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY)
          • Limitations
        • Folder tied as hash (Mail::Box::Tie::HASH)
        • Folder locking (Mail::Box::Locker)
        • Searching folders (Mail::Box::Search)
          • scan header and body (Mail::Box::Search::Grep)
          • check for spam (Mail::Box::Search::SpamAssassin)

      • Folder types
        • DBX folders (Mail::Box::Dbx, read only)
          • How DBX folders work
          • This implementation
          • Converting DBX folders to MBOX
        • IMAP4 folders (Mail::Box::IMAP4)
          • How IMAP4 folders work
        • MAILDIR folders (Mail::Box::Maildir)
          • How MAILDIR folders work
        • MBOX folders (Mail::Box::Mbox)
          • How MBOX folders work
          • Simulation of sub-folders
        • MH folders (Mail::Box::MH)
          • How MH folders work
          • This implementation
          • An index-file
        • POP3 folders (Mail::Box::POP3)
          • How POP3 folders work
          • This implementation

      • Discussion threads
        • The thread manager (Mail::Box::Thread::Manager)
          • Maintaining threads
          • Delayed thread detection
        • The thread node (Mail::Box::Thread::Node)

      • Transmitting messages ( Mail::Transport )
        • Sending (Mail::Transport::Send)
          • Via Exim (Mail::Transport::Exim)
          • Via Mailx (Mail::Transport::Mailx)
          • Via Qmail (Mail::Transport::Qmail)
          • Via Sendmail or Postfix (Mail::Transport::Sendmail)
          • Via raw SMTP (Mail::Transport::SMTP)
        • Receiving (Mail::Transport::Receive)
          • Via POP3 (Mail::Transport::POP3)
        • Bi-directional
          • Via IMAP4 (Mail::Transport::IMAP4)

      • Performance
        • Quality over performance
        • Weak references
        • Reducing memory consumption
          • Lazy extraction
          • Picking the optimal body class
          • Reducing the header size (Mail::Message::Head::Partial)
        • Destructing messages (Mail::Box::Message::Destructed)
      • Additional modules
        • Extensions
          • Mail::Box::Parser::C, a faster parser
          • HTML::FromMail, webmail applications builder
        • Helper modules
          • MIME::Types
          • Object::Realize::Later
          • User::Identity

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.082, built on April 28, 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