man Email::MIME () - Easy MIME message parsing.

NAME

Email::MIME - Easy MIME message parsing.

SYNOPSIS

  use Email::MIME;
  my $parsed = Email::MIME->new($message);


  my Email::MIME @parts = $parsed->parts;
  my $decoded = $parsed->body;
  my $non_decoded = $parsed->body_raw;


  my $content_type = $parsed->content_type;

DESCRIPTION

This is an extension of the Email::Simple module, to handle MIME encoded messages. It takes a message as a string, splits it up into its constituent parts, and allows you access to various parts of the message. Headers are decoded from MIME encoding.

NOTE

This is an alpha release, designed to stimulate discussion on the API, which may change in future releases. Please send me comments about any features you think CWEmail::MIME should have. Note that I expect most things to be driven by subclassing and mix-ins.

METHODS

Please see Email::Simple for the base set of methods. It won't take very long. Added to that, you have:

parts

This returns a set of CWEmail::MIME objects reflecting the parts of the message. If it's a single-part message, you get the original object back.

body

This decodes and returns the body of the object. For top-level objects in multi-part messages, this is highly likely to be something like This is a multi-part message in MIME format.

body_raw

This returns the body of the object, but doesn't decode the transfer encoding.

content_type

This is a shortcut for access to the content type header.

filename

This provides the suggested filename for the attachment part. Normally it will return the filename from the headers, but if CWfilename is passed a true parameter, it will generate an appropriate stable filename if one is not found in the MIME headers.

AUTHOR

Casey West, CWcasey@geeknest.com

Simon Cozens, CWsimon@cpan.org (retired)

You may distribute this module under the terms of the Artistic or GPL licenses.

THANKS

This module was generously sponsored by Best Practical (http://www.bestpractical.com/) and Pete Sergeant.

SEE ALSO

Email::Simple.