NAME

Mail::Message::Construct::Text - capture a Mail::Message as text

SYNOPSIS

 my $text = $msg->string;
 my $text = "$msg";   # via overload

 my @text = $msg->lines;
 my @text = @$lines;  # via overload

 my $fh   = $msg->file;
 my $line = <$fh>;

 $msg->printStructure;

DESCRIPTION

Complex functionality on Mail::Message objects is implemented in different files which are autoloaded. This file implements the functionality related to creating message replies.

METHODS

The whole message as text

$obj->file()

Returns the message as file-handle.

$obj->lines()

Returns the whole message as set of lines. In LIST context, copies of the lines are returned. In SCALAR context, a reference to an array of lines is returned.

$obj->printStructure( [$fh|undef],[$indent] )

Print the structure of a message to the specified $fh or the selected filehandle. When explicitly undef is specified as handle, then the output will be returned as string.

The message's subject and the types of all composing parts are displayed.

$indent specifies the initial indentation string: it is added in front of each line. The $indent must contain at least one white-space.

example:

 my $msg = ...;
 $msg->printStructure(\*OUTPUT);

 $msg->printStructure;

 my $struct = $msg->printStructure(undef);

 # Possible output for one message:
 multipart/mixed: forwarded message from Pietje Puk (1550 bytes)
    text/plain (164 bytes)
    message/rfc822 (1043 bytes)
       multipart/alternative: A multipart alternative (942 bytes)
          text/plain (148 bytes, deleted)
          text/html (358 bytes)

$obj->string()

Returns the whole message as string.

Flags

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Message distribution version 3.001, built on July 26, 2017.

Do not forget to read Mail::Box-Overview, Mail::Box-Cookbook, and 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: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

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MailBox suite are: Mail::Message, Mail::Box, Mail::Box::IMAP4, Mail::Box::POP3, Mail::Box::Parser::C, Mail::Box::Dbx (unpublished), Mail::Transport, Object::Realize::Later, and User::Identity.

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

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 http://dev.perl.org/licenses/