mail::field::generic(3pms)

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.

METHODS

Constructors
Mail::Field::Generic->combine(FIELDS)

See "Constructors" in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])

See "Constructors" in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])

See "Constructors" in Mail::Field
"Fake" constructors
$obj->create(OPTIONS)

Option--Default
Text ''

. Text => STRING
$obj->parse([STRING])

Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.
Accessors
$obj->set(OPTIONS)

See "Accessors" in Mail::Field
$obj->stringify

See "Accessors" in Mail::Field
$obj->tag
Mail::Field::Generic->tag

See "Accessors" in Mail::Field
Smart accessors
$obj->text([STRING])

See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.
Apparently, the mehod 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 <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by
Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark
Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

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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