=encoding utf8

=head1 NAME

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

=head1 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>'};

=head1 DESCRIPTION

The use of C<Mail::Box::Tie> is B<deprecated>, because it is succeeded by two
separate modules: L<Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY|Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY> and L<Mail::Box::Tie::HASH|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.

=head1 METHODS

=head1 SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 3.004,
built on December 22, 2017.

Do not forget to read
L<Mail::Box-Overview>,
L<Mail::Box-Cookbook>, and
L<Mail::Box-Index>.
Examples are included in the Mail-Box distribution, directories 'examples'
and 'scripts'.

Browseable manuals, papers, and other released material van be found
at  Website: F<http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/>

The central modules (in separate distributions) in the MailBox suite are:
L<Mail::Message>,
L<Mail::Box>,
L<Mail::Box::IMAP4>,
L<Mail::Box::POP3>,
L<Mail::Box::Parser::C>,
L<Mail::Box::Dbx> (unpublished),
L<Mail::Transport>,
L<Object::Realize::Later>, and
L<User::Identity>.

Please post questions or ideas to the author F<markov@cpan.org>.

=head1 LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2017 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 F<http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>