NAME

Email::Folder::Mbox - reads raw RFC822 mails from an mbox file

SYNOPSIS

This isa Email::Folder::Reader - read about its API there.

DESCRIPTION

Does exactly what it says on the tin - fetches raw RFC822 mails from an mbox.

The mbox format is described at http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html

We attempt to read an mbox as through it's the mboxcl2 variant, falling back to regular mbox mode if there is no Content-Length header to be found.

OPTIONS

The new constructor takes extra options.

eol

This indicates what the line-ending style is to be. The default is "\n", but for handling files with mac line-endings you would want to specify eol => "\x0d"

jwz_From_

The value is taken as a boolean that governs what is used match as a message seperator.

If false we use the mutt style

            

              
              
/^From \S+\s+(?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)/
/^From (?:Mon|Tue|Wed|Thu|Fri|Sat|Sun)/;
            
          

If true we use

            

              
              
/^From /
            
          

In deference to this extract from Content-Length Considered Harmful

            

              
              
Essentially the only safe way to parse that file format is to
consider all lines which begin with the characters ``From ''
(From-space), which are preceded by a blank line or
beginning-of-file, to be the division between messages.  That is, the
delimiter is "\n\nFrom .*\n" except for the very first message in the
file, where it is "^From .*\n".
Some people will tell you that you should do stricter parsing on
those lines: check for user names and dates and so on.  They are
wrong.  The random crap that has traditionally been dumped into that
line is without bound; comparing the first five characters is the
only safe and portable thing to do. Usually, but not always, the next
token on the line after ``From '' will be a user-id, or email
address, or UUCP path, and usually the next thing on the line will be
a date specification, in some format, and usually there's nothing
after that.  But you can't rely on any of this.
            
          

Defaults to false.

seek_to

Seek to an offset when opening the mbox. When used in combination with ->tell you may be able to resume reading, with a trailing wind.

AUTHORS

Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYING

Copyright 2003, Simon Wistow

Distributed under the same terms as Perl itself.

This software is under no warranty and will probably ruin your life, kill your friends, burn your house and bring about the apocolapyse.

SEE ALSO

Email::LocalDelivery, Email::Folder