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=head1 NAME
Mail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash
=head1 INHERITANCE
=head1 SYNOPSIS
As an array:
 use Mail::Box::Tie;
 tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY => $folder;
 tie my(@inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
 print $inbox[3];
or as hash:
 tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie::HASH => $folder;
 tie my(%inbox), Mail::Box::Tie => $folder;    # deprecated
 print $inbox{'<12379.124879@example.com>'};
=head1 DESCRIPTION
The use of C<Mail::Box::Tie> is B<deprecated>, because it is succeeded by two
separate modules: L<Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY|Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY> and L<Mail::Box::Tie::HASH|Mail::Box::Tie::HASH>.
However, this module still works.
Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just
access them as one?  Or, the order is not important, but the
message-ids are (give relations): why not access them from a hash
based on this message-id?  Programs using one of these ties will
look simpler than programs using the more traditional method calls.
=head1 METHODS
=head1 SEE ALSO
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.081,
built on February 25, 2008. Website: F<http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/>
=head1 LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2008 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 F<http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html>