Mail::Message::Construct::Read - read a Mail::Message from a file handle
my $msg1 = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN); my $msg2 = Mail::Message->read(\@lines);
When complex methods are called on a Mail::Message object, this package is autoloaded to support the reading of messages directly from any file handle.
Mail::Message
Read a message from a $fh, STRING, SCALAR, or a reference to an ARRAY of lines. Most %options are passed to the new() of the message which is created, but a few extra are defined.
Please have a look at build() and buildFromBody() before thinking about this read method. Use this read only when you have a file-handle like STDIN to parse from, or some external source of message lines. When you already have a separate set of head and body lines, then read is certainly not your best choice.
read
Some people use this method in a procmail script: the message arrives at stdin, so we only have a filehandle. In this case, you are stuck with this method. The message is preceded by a line which can be used as message separator in mbox folders. See the example how to handle that one.
This method will remove Status and X-Status fields when they appear in the source, to avoid the risk that these fields accidentally interfere with your internal administration, which may have security implications.
Status
X-Status
-Option --Default body_type undef strip_status_fields <true>
Force a body type (any specific implementation of a Mail::Message::Body) to be used to store the message content. When the body is a multipart or nested, this will be overruled.
Remove the Status and X-Status fields from the message after reading, to lower the risk that received messages from external sources interfere with your internal administration. If you want fields not to be stripped (you would like to disable the stripping) you probably process folders yourself, which is a Bad Thing!
example:
my $msg1 = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN); my $msg2 = Mail::Message->read(\@lines, log => 'PROGRESS'); $folder->addMessages($msg1, $msg2); my $msg3 = Mail::Message->read(<<MSG); Subject: hello world To: you@example.com # warning: empty line required !!! Hi, greetings! MSG # promail example my $fromline = <STDIN>; my $msg = Mail::Message->read(\*STDIN); my $coerced = $mboxfolder->addMessage($msg); $coerced->fromLine($fromline);
This module is part of Mail-Message distribution version 3.005, built on December 22, 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.
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/
To install Mail::Message, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Mail::Message
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Mail::Message
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.