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NAME

Sisimai::Mail::Mbox - Mailbox reader

SYNOPSIS

    use Sisimai::Mail::Mbox;
    my $mailbox = Sisimai::Mail::Mbox->new('/var/spool/mail/root');
    while( my $r = $mailbox->read ) {
        print $r;   # print contents of each mail in mbox
    }

DESCRIPTION

Sisimai::Mail::Mbox is a mailbox file (UNIX mbox) reader.

CLASS METHODS

new( path to mbox )

new() is a constructor of Sisimai::Mail::Mbox

    my $mailbox = Sisimai::Mail::Mbox->new('/var/mail/root');

INSTANCE METHODS

path()

path() returns the path to mbox.

    print $mailbox->path;   # /var/mail/root

name()

name() returns a file name of the mbox.

    print $mailbox->name;   # root

size()

size() returns the file size of the mbox.

    print $mailbox->size;   # 94515

offset()

offset() returns offset position for seeking the mbox. The value of "offset" is bytes which have already read.

    print $mailbox->offset;   # 0

handle()

handle() returns file handle object (IO::File) of the mbox.

    $mailbox->handle->close;

read()

read() works as a iterator for reading each email in the mbox.

    my $mailbox = Sisimai::Mail->new('/var/mail/neko');
    while( my $r = $mailbox->read ) {
        print $r;   # print each email in /var/mail/neko
    }

AUTHOR

azumakuniyuki

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2014 azumakuniyuki <perl.org@azumakuniyuki.org>, All Rights Reserved.

LICENSE

This software is distributed under The BSD 2-Clause License.