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

NAME  INHERITANCE  SYNOPSIS  DESCRIPTION  METHODS  Constructors  "Fake" constructors  Accessors  Smart accessors  DETAILS  DIAGNOSTICS  SEE ALSO  AUTHORS  LICENSE 

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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 <[email protected]>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <[email protected]>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <[email protected]>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995−2000 Graham Barr <[email protected]> and 2001−2017 Mark Overmeer <[email protected]>.

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

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