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 <
[email protected]>');
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.
