mail::cap(3)
NAME
Mail::Cap - Parse mailcap files
SYNOPSIS
my $mc = new Mail::Cap;
$desc = $mc->description('image/gif');
print "GIF desc: $desc0;
$cmd = $mc->viewCmd('text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1',
'file.txt');
DESCRIPTION
- Parse mailcap files as specified in RFC 1524 - A User
Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information. In the description below $type refers to the MIME type as specified in the Content-Type header of mail or HTTP messages. Examples of types are: - image/gif
text/html
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
METHODS
- new(OPTIONS)
- $mcap = new Mail::Cap;
$mcap = new Mail::Cap "/mydir/mailcap";
$mcap = new Mail::Cap filename => "/mydir/mailcap";
$mcap = new Mail::Cap take => 'ALL';
$mcap = Mail::Cap->new(take => 'ALL'); - Create and initialize a new Mail::Cap object. If you give
it an argument it will try to parse the specified file.
Without any arguments it will search for the mailcap file
using the standard mailcap path, or the MAILCAPS environ
ment variable if it is defined. - There is currently two OPTION implemented:
- · take => 'ALL'|'FIRST'
- Include all mailcap files you can find. By default,
only the first file is parsed, however the RFC tells
us to include ALL. To maintain backwards compatibil
ity, the default only takes the FIRST. - · filename => FILENAME
- Add the specified file to the list to standard loca
tions. This file is tried first. - view($type, $file)
- compose($type, $file)
- edit($type, $file)
- print($type, $file)
- These methods invoke a suitable progam presenting or
manipulating the media object in the specified file. They
all return 1 if a command was found, and 0 otherwise. You
might test $? for the outcome of the command. - viewCmd($type, $file)
- composeCmd($type, $file)
- editCmd($type, $file)
- printCmd($type, $file)
- These methods return a string that is suitable for feeding
to system() in order to invoke a suitable progam present ing or manipulating the media object in the specified
file. It will return "undef" if no suitable specification
exists. - field($type, $field)
- Returns the specified field for the type. Returns undef
if no specification exsists. - description($type)
- textualnewlines($type)
- x11_bitmap($type)
- nametemplate($type)
- These methods return the corresponding mailcap field for
the type. These methods should be more convenient to use
than the field() method for the same fields.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
Modified by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
- Maintained by Mark Overmeer <mailtools@overmeer.net>