Manpages - Mail_Field_Generic.3pm

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NAME

Mail::Field::Generic - implementation for inspecific fields

INHERITANCE

Mail::Field::Generic is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

use Mail::Field; my $field = Mail::Field->new(Subject, some subject text); my $field = Mail::Field->new(subject => some subject text);

DESCRIPTION

A generic implementation for header fields without own implementation. This is fine for fields like Subject, X-Mailer, etc., where the field holds only a string of no particular importance/format.

Extends DESCRIPTION in Mail::Field.

METHODS

Extends METHODS in Mail::Field.

Constructors

Extends Constructors in Mail::Field.

Mail::Field::Generic->combine($fields)
Inherited, see Constructors in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->extract( $tag, $head [, $index ] )
Inherited, see Constructors in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->new( $tag [, STRING | %options] )
Inherited, see Constructors in Mail::Field

“Fake” constructors

Extends “Fake constructors” in Mail::Field.

$obj->create(%options)
-Option–Default Text
Text => STRING
$obj->parse( [STRING] )

Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.

Accessors

Extends Accessors in Mail::Field.

$obj->set(%options)
Inherited, see Accessors in Mail::Field
$obj->stringify()
Inherited, see Accessors in Mail::Field
$obj->tag()
Mail::Field::Generic->tag()

Inherited, see Accessors in Mail::Field

Smart accessors

Extends Smart accessors in Mail::Field.

$obj->text( [STRING] )
Inherited, see Smart accessors in Mail::Field

DETAILS

Extends DETAILS in Mail::Field.

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality. Apparently, the method called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.

Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2017 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

Author: dt

Created: 2022-02-20 Sun 17:04