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Mail::Util(3pm) |
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Mail::Util − mail utility functions
Mail::Util is a Exporter
use Mail::Util qw( ... );
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.
mailaddress
Return a guess at the current users mail address. The user can force the return value by setting the MAILADDRESS environment variable.
WARNING: When not supplied via the environment variable, <mailaddress> looks at various configuration files and other environmental data. Although this seems to be smart behavior, this is not predictable enough ( IMHO ) to be used. Please set the MAILADDRESS explicitly, and do not trust on the "automatic detection", even when that produces a correct address (on the moment)
example:
# in your main script $ENV{MAILADDRESS} = 'me@example.com'; # everywhere else use Mail::Util 'mailaddress'; print mailaddress;
maildomain
Attempt to determine the current uers mail domain string via the following methods
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Look for the MAILDOMAIN enviroment variable, which can be set from outside the program. This is by far the best way to configure the domain. | ||
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Look for a sendmail.cf file and extract DH parameter | ||
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Look for a smail config file and usr the first host defined in hostname(s) | ||
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Try an SMTP connect (if Net::SMTP exists) first to mailhost then localhost | ||
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Use value from Net::Domain::domainname (if Net::Domain exists) |
WARNING: On modern machines, there is only one good way to provide information to this method: the first; always explicitly configure the MAILDOMAIN .
example:
# in your main script $ENV{MAILDOMAIN} = 'example.com'; # everywhere else use Mail::Util 'maildomain'; print maildomain;
read_mbox( FILE )
Read FILE , a binmail mailbox file, and return a list of references. Each reference is a reference to an array containg one message.
WARNING: This method does not quote lines which accidentally also start with the message separator "From", so this implementation can be considered broken. See Mail::Box::Mbox
This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.
The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.
Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
Copyrights 1995−2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001−2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.
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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