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NAME
    Email::Simple - Email handling. Simply.

SYNOPSIS
        my $mail = Email::Simple->new($text);

        my $from_header = $mail->header("From");
        my @received = $mail->header("Received");

        $mail->header_set("From", 'Simon Cozens <simon@cpan.org>');

        my $old_body = $mail->body;
        $mail->body_set("Hello world\nSimon");

        print $mail->as_string;

        # AND THAT'S ALL.

DESCRIPTION
    "Email::Simple" is the first deliverable of the "Perl Email Project", a
    reaction against the complexity and increasing bugginess of the
    "Mail::*" modules. In contrast, "Email::*" modules are meant to be
    simple to use and to maintain, pared to the bone, fast, minimal in their
    external dependencies, and correct.

        Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms?
        It does everything Unix does only less reliably - kt

METHODS
    Methods are deliberately kept to a minimum. This is meant to be simple.
    No, I will not add method X. This is meant to be simple. Why doesn't it
    have feature Y? Because it's meant to be simple.

  new
    Parse an email from a scalar, and return an object.

header
    Returns a list of the contents of the given header.

    If called in scalar context, will return the first header so named. I'm
    not sure I like that. Maybe it should always return a list. But it
    doesn't.

  header_set
        $mail->header_set($field, $line1, $line2, ...);

    Sets the header to contain the given data. If you pass multiple lines
    in, you get multiple headers, and order is retained.

  body
    Returns the body text of the mail.

  body_set
    Sets the body text of the mail.

  as_string
    Returns the mail as a string, reconstructing the headers. Please note
    that header fields are kept in order if they are unique, but, for,
    instance, multiple "Received" headers will be grouped together. (This is
    in accordance with RFC2822, honest.)

    Also, if you've added new headers with "header_set" that weren't in the
    original mail, they'll be added to the end.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    Copyright 2003 by Simon Cozens

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