Mail::Field::Generic(3)
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.
METHODS
Constructors
Mail::Field::Generic->combine(FIELDS)
See "Constructors" in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])
See "Constructors" in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])
See "Constructors" in Mail::Field
"Fake" constructors
$obj->create(OPTIONS)
Option--Default
Text ''
. Text => STRING
$obj->parse([STRING])
Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.
Accessors
$obj->set(OPTIONS)
See "Accessors" in Mail::Field
$obj->stringify
See "Accessors" in Mail::Field
$obj->tag
Mail::Field::Generic->tag
See "Accessors" in Mail::Field
Smart accessors
$obj->text([STRING])
See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field
DETAILS
DIAGNOSTICS
Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.
Apparently, the mehod 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 2001-2007 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
perl v5.10.0 2008-07-29 Mail::Field::Generic(3)
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