MailTools is a bundle: an ancient form of combining packages into one distribution. Gladly, it can be distributed as if it is a normal distribution as well. Be warned: The code you find here is very old. It works for simple emails, but when you start...

Parse mailcap files as specified in "RFC 1524 --A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information>. In the description below $type refers to the MIME type as specified in the "Content-Type" header of mail or HTTP messages. E...

This package provides several mail related utility functions. Any function required must by explicitly listed on the use line to be exported into the calling package....

Mail::Send creates e-mail messages without using the Mail::Header knowledge, which means that all escaping and folding must be done by you! Also: do not forget to escape leading dots. Simplicity has its price. When you have time, take a look at Mail:...

"Mail::Field" creates and manipulates fields in MIME headers, collected within a Mail::Header object. Different field types have their own sub-class (extension), defining additional useful accessors to the field content. People are invited to merge t...

Sends mail using any of the built-in methods. As TYPE argument to new(), you can specify any of "sendmail" Use the "sendmail" program to deliver the mail. "smtp" Use the "smtp" protocol via Net::SMTP to deliver the mail. The server to use can be spec...

"Mail::Filter" provides an interface to filtering Email through multiple subroutines. "Mail::Filter" filters mail by calling each filter subroutine in turn. Each filter subroutine is called with two arguments, the first is the filter object and the s...

Read, write, create, and manipulate MIME headers, the leading part of each modern e-mail message, but also used in other protocols like HTTP. The fields are kept in Mail::Field objects. Be aware that the header fields each have a name part, which sha...

"Mail::Address" extracts and manipulates email addresses from a message header. It cannot be used to extract addresses from some random text. You can use this module to create RFC822 compliant fields. Although "Mail::Address" is a very popular subjec...

This package implements reading, creating, manipulating, and writing email messages. Sometimes, the implementation tries to be too smart, but in the general case it works as expected. If you start writing a new application, you should use the Mail::B...

Represents one "Date" header field. Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Field....

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. Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Field....

Defines parsing and formatting of address field, for the following fields: "To", "From", "Cc", "Reply-To", and "Sender". All the normally used features of the address field specification of RFC2822 are implemented, but some complex (and therefore har...