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NAME

Mail::Message::Body::File - body of a message temporarily stored in a file

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Message::Body::File
   is a Mail::Message::Body
   is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

 See Mail::Message::Body

DESCRIPTION

The body (content) of a message can be stored in various ways. In this documentation you find the description of extra functionality you have when a message is stored in a file.

Storing a whole message is a file is useful when the body is large. Although access through a file is slower, it is saving a lot of memory.

OVERLOADED

overload: ""

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Body

overload: '==' and '!='

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Body

overload: @{}

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Body

overload: bool

See "OVERLOADED" in Mail::Message::Body

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone

See "Constructors" in Mail::Message::Body

Mail::Message::Body::File->new(OPTIONS)
 -Option           --Defined in     --Default
  based_on           Mail::Message::Body  undef
  charset            Mail::Message::Body  'PERL' or <undef>
  checked            Mail::Message::Body  <false>
  data               Mail::Message::Body  undef
  description        Mail::Message::Body  undef
  disposition        Mail::Message::Body  undef
  eol                Mail::Message::Body  'NATIVE'
  file               Mail::Message::Body  undef
  log                Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
  message            Mail::Message::Body  undef
  mime_type          Mail::Message::Body  'text/plain'
  modified           Mail::Message::Body  <false>
  trace              Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
  transfer_encoding  Mail::Message::Body  'none'
based_on => BODY
charset => CHARSET|'PERL'
checked => BOOLEAN
data => ARRAY-OF-LINES | STRING
description => STRING|FIELD
disposition => STRING|FIELD
eol => 'CR'|'LF'|'CRLF'|'NATIVE'
file => FILENAME|FILEHANDLE|IOHANDLE
log => LEVEL
message => MESSAGE
mime_type => STRING|FIELD|MIME
modified => BOOLEAN
trace => LEVEL
transfer_encoding => STRING|FIELD

Constructing a body

$obj->attach(MESSAGES, OPTIONS)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Construct

$obj->check

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->concatenate(COMPONENTS)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Construct

$obj->decoded(OPTIONS)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->encode(OPTIONS)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->encoded

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->eol(['CR'|'LF'|'CRLF'|'NATIVE'])

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->foreachLine(CODE)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Construct

$obj->stripSignature(OPTIONS)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Construct

$obj->unify(BODY)

See "Constructing a body" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

The body

$obj->isDelayed

See "The body" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->isMultipart

See "The body" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->isNested

See "The body" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->message([MESSAGE])

See "The body" in Mail::Message::Body

About the payload

$obj->charset

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->checked([BOOLEAN])

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->description([STRING|FIELD])

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->disposition([STRING|FIELD])

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->dispositionFilename([DIRECTORY])

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->isBinary

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->isText

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->mimeType

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->nrLines

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->size

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->transferEncoding([STRING|FIELD])

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->type([STRING|FIELD])

See "About the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

Access to the payload

$obj->endsOnNewline

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->file

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->lines

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->printEscapedFrom(FILEHANDLE)

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->string

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->stripTrailingNewline

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->write(OPTIONS)

See "Access to the payload" in Mail::Message::Body

Internals

$obj->addTransferEncHandler(NAME, CLASS|OBJECT)

Mail::Message::Body::File->addTransferEncHandler(NAME, CLASS|OBJECT)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->contentInfoFrom(HEAD)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->contentInfoTo(HEAD)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->fileLocation([BEGIN,END])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->getTransferEncHandler(TYPE)

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body::Encode

$obj->isModified

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->load

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->modified([BOOLEAN])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->moveLocation([DISTANCE])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->read(PARSER, HEAD, BODYTYPE [,CHARS [,LINES]])

See "Internals" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->tempFilename([FILENAME])

Returns the name of the temporary file which is used to store this body.

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

See "Error handling" in Mail::Message::Body

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

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

Mail::Message::Body::File->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::Body::File->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Message::Body::File->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

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

The temporary file is automatically removed when the body is not required anymore.

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Cannot write to temporary body file $filename: $!

The message body is to be stored in a temporary file (probably because it is a large body), but for the indicated reason, this file cannot be created.

Warning: Charset $name is not known

The encoding or decoding of a message body encounters a character set which is not understood by Perl's Encode module.

Warning: No decoder defined for transfer encoding $name.

The data (message body) is encoded in a way which is not currently understood, therefore no decoding (or recoding) can take place.

Warning: No encoder defined for transfer encoding $name.

The data (message body) has been decoded, but the required encoding is unknown. The decoded data is returned.

Error: Package $package does not implement $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.

Error: Unable to read file $filename for message body file: $!

A Mail::Message::Body::File object is to be created from a named file, but it is impossible to read that file to retrieve the lines within. Therefore, no copy to a temporary file can be made.

Warning: Unknown line terminator $eol ignored

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.097, built on January 26, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

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