Mail::Box::Tie(3)     User Contributed Perl Documentation    Mail::Box::Tie(3)


NAME
       Mail::Box::Tie - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash

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>'};

DESCRIPTION
       The use of "Mail::Box::Tie" is deprecated, because it is succeeded by
       two separate modules: Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY and 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.

METHODS
SEE ALSO
       This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 3.009, built on
       August 18, 2020. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

LICENSE
       Copyrights 2001-2020 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://dev.perl.org/licenses/

perl v5.36.0                      2022-06-02                 Mail::Box::Tie(3)