Mail::Field::Generic(3) implementation for inspecific fields

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Field::Generic
   is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS


use Mail::Field;
my $field = Mail::Field->new('Subject', 'some subject text');
my $field = Mail::Field->new(subject => 'some subject text');

DESCRIPTION

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.

See documentation in the base class.

METHODS

See documentation in the base class.

Constructors

See documentation in the base class.
Mail::Field::Generic->combine(FIELDS)
See ``Constructors'' in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])
See ``Constructors'' in Mail::Field
Mail::Field::Generic->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])
See ``Constructors'' in Mail::Field

Fake constructors

See documentation in the base class.
$obj->create(OPTIONS)
 -Option--Default
  Text    ''
Text => STRING
$obj->parse([STRING])
Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.

Accessors

See documentation in the base class.
$obj->set(OPTIONS)
See ``Accessors'' in Mail::Field
$obj->stringify()
See ``Accessors'' in Mail::Field
$obj->tag()
Mail::Field::Generic->tag()
See ``Accessors'' in Mail::Field

Smart accessors

See documentation in the base class.
$obj->text([STRING])
See ``Smart accessors'' in Mail::Field

DETAILS

See documentation in the base class.

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality. Apparently, the method called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.

Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <[email protected]>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <[email protected]>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <[email protected]>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <[email protected]> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <[email protected]>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

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