Mail::Field::Generic(3)                    User Contributed Perl Documentation


NAME
       Mail::Field::Generic - 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.

       Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Field.

METHODS
       Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Field.

   Constructors
       Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Field.

       Mail::Field::Generic->combine($fields)
           Inherited, see "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->extract( $tag, $head [, $index ] )
           Inherited, see "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->new( $tag [, STRING | %options] )
           Inherited, see "Constructors" in Mail::Field

   "Fake" constructors
       Extends ""Fake" constructors" in Mail::Field.

       $obj->create(%options)
            -Option--Default
             Text    ''

           Text => STRING
       $obj->parse( [STRING] )
           Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.

   Accessors
       Extends "Accessors" in Mail::Field.

       $obj->set(%options)
           Inherited, see "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->stringify()
           Inherited, see "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->tag()
       Mail::Field::Generic->tag()
           Inherited, see "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
       Extends "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field.

       $obj->text( [STRING] )
           Inherited, see "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

DETAILS
       Extends "DETAILS" in Mail::Field.

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.

SEE ALSO
       This module is part of the MailTools distribution,
       http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

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 <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.

LICENSE
       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2017 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

perl v5.38.0                      2023-07-25           Mail::Field::Generic(3)