Mail::Field::Generic(3pm)

Mail::Field::Generic3pm

Implementation for inspecific fields

Usage

 use Mail::Field;
 my $field = Mail::Field->new('Subject', 'some subject text');
 my $field = Mail::Field->new(subject => 'some subject text');

Inheritance

 Mail::Field::Generic
   is a Mail::Field

Overview

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.

Releases

10 releases since Debian 5.0 (Lenny); the text changed 8 times.

  1. 5.0
  2. 6.0
  3. 7
  4. 8
  5. 9–10
  6. 11
  7. 12
  8. 13
  9. Arch

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 2001-2024 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

From perl-mailtools 2.22-3 in Arch Linux 2026-11-01. Parsed by carta from the page's man source.