Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl - A Perl-based mbox folder reader
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl;
my $filename = 'mail/saved-mail';
my $filehandle = new FileHandle($filename);
my $folder_reader =
new Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl( {
'file_name' => $filename,
'file_handle' => $filehandle,
} );
die $folder_reader unless ref $folder_reader;
# Any newlines or such before the start of the first email
my $prologue = $folder_reader->prologue;
print $prologue;
# This is the main loop. It's executed once for each email
while(!$folder_reader->end_of_file());
{
my $email = $folder_reader->read_next_email();
print $email;
}
This module implements a perl-based mbox folder reader. Users are encouraged to use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The base MessageParser module will automatically use a faster implementation is one is available. (Although you can just use this module if you don't want to use caching or GNU grep.)
The following methods and functions are specific to the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl package. For additional inherited ones, see the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser documentation.
<file_name> - The full filename of the mailbox
<file_handle> - An opened file handle for the mailbox
The constructor for the class takes two parameters. The optional file_name parameter is the filename of the mailbox. The required file_handle argument is the opened file handle to the mailbox.
Returns a reference to a Mail::Mbox::MessageParser object, or a string describing the error.
No known bugs.
Contact david@coppit.org for bug reports and suggestions.
David Coppit <david@coppit.org>.
This software is distributed under the terms of the GPL. See the file "LICENSE" for more information.
This code was originally part of the grepmail distribution. See http://grepmail.sf.net/ for previous versions of grepmail which included early versions of this code.
