NAME

Email::Folder - read all the messages from a folder as Email::Simple objects

VERSION

version 0.858

SYNOPSIS

use Email::Folder;

my $folder = Email::Folder->new("some_file");

print join "\n", map { $_->header("Subject") } $folder->messages;

METHODS

new($folder, %options)

Takes the name of a folder, and a hash of options

If a 'reader' option is passed in then that is used as the class to read in messages with.

messages

Returns a list containing all of the messages in the folder. Can only be called once as it drains the iterator.

next_message

acts as an iterator. reads the next message from a folder. returns false at the end of the folder

bless_message($message)

Takes a raw RFC822 message and blesses it into a class.

By default this is an Email::Simple object but can easily be overridden in a subclass.

For example, this simple subclass just returns the raw rfc822 messages, and exposes the speed of the parser.

package Email::RawFolder;
use base 'Email::Folder';
sub bless_message { $_[1] };
1;

reader

read-only accessor to the underlying Email::Reader subclass instance

SEE ALSO

Email::LocalDelivery, Email::FolderType, Email::Simple

AUTHORS

• Simon Wistow <simon@thegestalt.org>

• Richard Clamp <richardc@unixbeard.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2006 by Simon Wistow.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.