NAME

Mail::Box::MH::Labels - maintain MH message related labels

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Box::MH::Labels
   is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

 my $labels = Mail::Box::MH::Labels->new;
 $labels->read(...)
 $labels->write(...)

DESCRIPTION

MH type message folders use one dedicated file per folder-directory to list special tags to messages in that folder. By doing this, mail agents may avoid parsing all the messages, which is very resource consuming.

Labels can be used to group messages, for instance to reflect which messages have been read or which look like spam. Some labels are predefined, but more can be added without limitation.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Box::MH::Labels->new(OPTIONS)

 Option  --Defined in     --Default
 filename                   <required>
 log       Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
 trace     Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'

. filename => FILENAME

The FILENAME which is used in each directory to store the headers of all mails. The filename must be an absolute path.

. log => LEVEL

. trace => LEVEL

The Label Table

$obj->append(MESSAGES)

Append the label information about the specified MESSAGES to the end of the label file. The information will not be merged with the information already present in the label file.

$obj->filename

Returns the name of the index file.

$obj->get(MSGNR)

Look if there is label info for message MSGNR.

$obj->print(FILEHANDLE, MESSAGES)

Print the labels of the specified messages to the opened file.

$obj->read

Read all label information from file.

$obj->write(MESSAGES)

Write the labels related to the specified messages to the label file.

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Box::MH::Labels->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->errors

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Box::MH::Labels->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Box::MH::Labels->logPriority(LEVEL)

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->logSettings

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->notImplemented

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->report([LEVEL])

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

$obj->warnings

See Mail::Reporter/"Error handling"

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

See Mail::Reporter/"Cleanup"

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See Mail::Reporter/"Cleanup"

DIAGNOSTICS

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.

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 http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html