NAME

Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl - A Perl-based mbox folder reader

SYNOPSIS

  #!/usr/bin/perl

  use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser;

  my $filename = 'mail/saved-mail';
  my $filehandle = new FileHandle($filename);

  my $folder_reader =
    new Mail::Mbox::MessageParser( {
      '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;
  }

DESCRIPTION

This module implements a Perl-based mbox folder reader. Users must not instantiate this class directly--use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser instead. The base MessageParser module will automatically manage the use of faster implementations if they can be used.

METHODS AND FUNCTIONS

The following methods and functions are specific to the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl package. For additional inherited ones, see the Mail::Mbox::MessageParser documentation.

$ref = new( { 'file_name' => <mailbox file name>, 'file_handle' => <mailbox file handle> });

    <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.

end_of_file()

reset()

read_next_email()

These methods are overridden in this subclass of Mail::Mbox::MessageParser.

BUGS

No known bugs.

Contact david@coppit.org for bug reports and suggestions.

AUTHOR

David Coppit <david@coppit.org>.

LICENSE

This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL) Version 2. See the file LICENSE in the distribution for details.

HISTORY

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.