NAME

Email::Simple - Email handling. Simply.

SYNOPSIS

    my $mail = Email::Simple->new($text);

    my $from_header = $mail->header("From");
    my @received = $mail->header("Received");

    $mail->header_set("From", 'Simon Cozens <simon@cpan.org>');

    my $old_body = $mail->body;
    $mail->body_set("Hello world\nSimon");

    print $mail->as_string;

    # AND THAT'S ALL.

DESCRIPTION

Email::Simple is the first deliverable of the "Perl Email Project", a reaction against the complexity and increasing bugginess of the Mail::* modules. In contrast, Email::* modules are meant to be simple to use and to maintain, pared to the bone, fast, minimal in their external dependencies, and correct.

    Can you sum up plan 9 in layman's terms?
    It does everything Unix does only less reliably - kt

METHODS

Methods are deliberately kept to a minimum. This is meant to be simple. No, I will not add method X. This is meant to be simple. Why doesn't it have feature Y? Because it's meant to be simple.

new

Parse an email from a scalar, and return an object.

header

Returns a list of the contents of the given header.

If called in scalar context, will return the first header so named. I'm not sure I like that. Maybe it should always return a list. But it doesn't.

header_set

    $mail->header_set($field, $line1, $line2, ...);

Sets the header to contain the given data. If you pass multiple lines in, you get multiple headers, and order is retained.

body

Returns the body text of the mail.

body_set

Sets the body text of the mail.

as_string

Returns the mail as a string, reconstructing the headers. Please note that header fields are kept in order if they are unique, but, for, instance, multiple "Received" headers will be grouped together. (This is in accordance with RFC2822, honest.)

Also, if you've added new headers with header_set that weren't in the original mail, they'll be added to the end.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2003 by Simon Cozens

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.