Mail::Message::Field::Fast - one line of a message header

 Mail::Message::Field::Fast
   is a Mail::Message::Field
   is a Mail::Reporter

 See Mail::Message::Field

This is the faster, but less flexible implementation of a header field. The data is stored in an array, and some hacks are made to speeds things up. Be gentle with me, and consider that each message contains many of these lines, so speed is very important here.

overload: "" See OVERLOADED in Mail::Message::Field

overload: +0 See OVERLOADED in Mail::Message::Field

overload: <=> See OVERLOADED in Mail::Message::Field

overload: bool See OVERLOADED in Mail::Message::Field

overload: cmp See OVERLOADED in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->clone See Constructors in Mail::Message::Field

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->new(DATA) The constructor of this object does not follow the usual practise within the Mail::Box suite: it does not use the constructor Mail::Reporter::new(). Therefor it has no logging or tracing facilities. The method can be used in one of the following ways:

* new LINE

Pass a LINE as it could be found in a file: a (possibly folded) line which is terminated by a new-line.

* new NAME, (BODY|OBJECTS), [ATTRIBUTES]

A set of values which shape the line. Create a new header field object. Specify the whole LINE at once, and it will be split-up for you. I case you already have the parts of the header line, you may specify them separately as NAME and BODY. In case you specify a single OBJECT, or a reference to an array of OBJECTS, these objects are processed to become suitable to fill a field, usually by simple strification. When you specify one or more Mail::Address objects, these are transformed into a string using their CWformat method. You may also add one Mail::Message::Field, whose body is taken. In case of an array, the elements are joined into one string with a comma. ATTRIBUTES can be exactly one string which may contain multiple attributes at once, quoted and formatted as required in RFC2822. As alternative, list of key-value pairs can be used. In this case, the values will get quoted if needed and everything formatted as the protocol demands.

 Option  Defined in       Default   
 log     L<Mail::Reporter>  <disabled>
 trace   L<Mail::Reporter>  <disabled>

. log LEVEL . trace LEVEL Example:

 my $mime = Mail::Message::Field->new(
  'Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII');

 my $mime = Mail::Message::Field->new(
  'Content-Type' => 'text/plain; charset=US-ASCII');

 my $mime = Mail::Message::Field->new(
  'Content-Type' => 'text/plain', 'charset=US-ASCII');

 my $mime = Mail::Message::Field->new(
  'Content-Type' => 'text/plain', charset => 'Latin1');

 my $mime = Mail::Message::Field->new(
  To => Mail::Address->new('My', 'me@example.com');

 my $mime = Mail::Message::Field->new(
  Cc => [ Mail::Address->new('You', 'you@example.com')
        , Mail::Address->new('His', 'he@example.com')
        ]);

But in practice, you can simply call

 my $head = Mail::Message::Head->new;
 $head->add( 'Content-Type' => 'text/plain'
           , charset => 'utf8');

which implicitly calls this constructor (when needed). You can specify the same things for Mail::Message::Head::Complete::add() as this CWnew accepts.

$obj->isStructured

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->isStructured See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->length See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->nrLines See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE]) See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->size See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->string([WRAP]) See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->toDisclose See The field in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->Name See Access to the name in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->name See Access to the name in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->wellformedName([STRING]) See Access to the name in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->body See Access to the body in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->folded See Access to the body in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->foldedBody([BODY]) See Access to the body in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->stripCFWS([STRING])

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->stripCFWS([STRING]) See Access to the body in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->unfoldedBody([BODY, [WRAP]]) See Access to the body in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->addresses See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->attribute(NAME [, VALUE]) See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->attributes See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->comment([STRING]) See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->study See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->toDate([TIME])

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->toDate([TIME]) See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->toInt See Access to the content in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->dateToTimestamp(STRING)

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->dateToTimestamp(STRING) See Other methods in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->consume(LINE | (NAME,BODY|OBJECTS)) See Internals in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->defaultWrapLength([LENGTH]) See Internals in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->fold(NAME, BODY, [MAXCHARS])

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->fold(NAME, BODY, [MAXCHARS]) See Internals in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->setWrapLength([LENGTH]) See Internals in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->stringifyData(STRING|ARRAY|OBJECTS) See Internals in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->unfold(STRING) See Internals in Mail::Message::Field

$obj->AUTOLOAD See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport(OBJECT) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Message::Field::Fast->logPriority(LEVEL) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report([LEVEL]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace([LEVEL]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->DESTROY See Cleanup in Mail::Reporter

$obj->inGlobalDestruction See Cleanup in Mail::Reporter

Warning: Field content is not numerical: CW$content

The numeric value of a field is requested (for instance the CWLines or CWContent-Length fields should be numerical), however the data contains weird characters.

Warning: Illegal character in field name CW$name

A new field is being created which does contain characters not permitted by the RFCs. Using this field in messages may break other e-mail clients or transfer agents, and therefore mutulate or extinguish your message.

Error: Package CW$package does not implement CW$method.

Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

See the MailBox website at <http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/> for more details.

Distribution version 2.063. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

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