NAME

Mail::Box::Collection - a collection of subfolders

INHERITANCE

Mail::Box::Collection
  is a User::Identity::Collection
  is a User::Identity::Item

Mail::Box::Collection
  is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

DESCRIPTION

The Mail::Box::Collection object maintains a set Mail::Box::Identity objects, each describing a the location of a single mailbox (folder). The collection is used by the Mail::Box::Manage::User object to administer the folders of a single user, even if those folders are closed.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Reporter.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in User::Identity::Collection.

OVERLOADED

Extends "OVERLOADED" in User::Identity::Collection.

overload: @{}

Inherited, see "OVERLOADED" in User::Identity::Collection

overload: stringification

Inherited, see "OVERLOADED" in User::Identity::Collection

METHODS

Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Reporter.

Extends "METHODS" in User::Identity::Collection.

Constructors

Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Reporter.

Extends "Constructors" in User::Identity::Collection.

Mail::Box::Collection->new( [$name], %options )

-Option     --Defined in                --Default
 description  User::Identity::Item        undef
 folder_type                              <from parent>
 item_type    User::Identity::Collection  Mail::Box::Identity
 log          Mail::Reporter              'WARNINGS'
 manager                                  <from parent>
 name         User::Identity::Item        'folders'
 parent       User::Identity::Item        undef
 roles        User::Identity::Collection  undef
 trace        Mail::Reporter              'WARNINGS'

description => STRING

folder_type => CLASS

item_type => CLASS

log => LEVEL

manager => OBJECT

An Mail::Box::Manager OBJECT (could be a Mail::Box::Manage::User).

name => STRING

parent => OBJECT

roles => ROLE|ARRAY

trace => LEVEL

Error handling

Extends "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter.

$obj->AUTOLOAD()

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport($object)

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )

Mail::Box::Collection->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors()

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log( [$level, [$strings]] )

Mail::Box::Collection->log( [$level, [$strings]] )

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority($level)

Mail::Box::Collection->logPriority($level)

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings()

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented()

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report( [$level] )

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll( [$level] )

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace( [$level] )

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings()

Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

Cleanup

Extends "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter.

$obj->DESTROY()

Inherited, see "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

Attributes

Extends "Attributes" in User::Identity::Collection.

$obj->description()

Inherited, see "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->folderType( [$folderclass] )

Returns the type of folder (on this location). When specified, then $folderclass must be a Mail::Box extension.

$obj->itemType()

Inherited, see "Attributes" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->manager()

The Mail::Box::Manager (usually a Mail::Box::Manage::User object), which is handling the opening of folders.

$obj->name( [NEWNAME] )

Inherited, see "Attributes" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->roles()

Inherited, see "Attributes" in User::Identity::Collection

Collections

Extends "Collections" in User::Identity::Collection.

$obj->add(COLLECTION, ROLE)

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->addCollection(OBJECT | ([TYPE], OPTIONS))

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->collection(NAME)

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->parent( [PARENT] )

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->removeCollection(OBJECT|NAME)

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->type()

Mail::Box::Collection->type()

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

$obj->user()

Inherited, see "Collections" in User::Identity::Item

Maintaining roles

Extends "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection.

$obj->addRole(ROLE| ([NAME],OPTIONS) | ARRAY)

Inherited, see "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->removeRole(ROLE|NAME)

Inherited, see "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->renameRole( <ROLE|OLDNAME>, NEWNAME )

Inherited, see "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

$obj->sorted()

Inherited, see "Maintaining roles" in User::Identity::Collection

Searching

Extends "Searching" in User::Identity::Collection.

$obj->find(NAME|CODE|undef)

Inherited, see "Searching" in User::Identity::Collection

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: $object is not a collection.

The first argument is an object, but not of a class which extends User::Identity::Collection.

Error: Cannot create a $type to add this to my collection.

Some options are specified to create a $type object, which is native to this collection. However, for some reason this failed.

Error: Cannot load collection module for $type ($class).

Either the specified $type does not exist, or that module named $class returns compilation errors. If the type as specified in the warning is not the name of a package, you specified a nickname which was not defined. Maybe you forgot the 'require' the package which defines the nickname.

Error: Cannot rename $name into $newname: already exists

Error: Cannot rename $name into $newname: doesn't exist

Error: Creation of a collection via $class failed.

The $class did compile, but it was not possible to create an object of that class using the options you specified.

Error: Don't know what type of collection you want to add.

If you add a collection, it must either by a collection object or a list of options which can be used to create a collection object. In the latter case, the type of collection must be specified.

Warning: No collection $name

The collection with $name does not exist and can not be created.

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: Wrong type of role for $collection: requires a $expect but got a $type

Each $collection groups sets of roles of one specific type ($expect). You cannot add objects of a different $type.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 3.003, built on June 29, 2017.

Do not forget to read Mail::Box-Overview, Mail::Box-Cookbook, and Mail::Box-Index. Examples are included in the Mail-Box distribution, directories 'examples' and 'scripts'.

Browseable manuals, papers, and other released material van be found at Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

The central modules (in separate distributions) in the MailBox suite are: Mail::Message, Mail::Box, Mail::Box::IMAP4, Mail::Box::POP3, Mail::Box::Parser::C, Mail::Box::Dbx (unpublished), Mail::Transport, Object::Realize::Later, and User::Identity.

Please post questions or ideas to the author markov@cpan.org.

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2017 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://dev.perl.org/licenses/

cpanm Mail::Box

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Mail::Box