MailTools(3)          User Contributed Perl Documentation         MailTools(3)


NAME
       MailTools - bundle of ancient email modules

SYNOPSIS
        # This is a place-holder for the distribution

DESCRIPTION
       MailTools is a bundle: an ancient form of combining packages into one
       distribution.  Gladly, it can be distributed as if it is a normal
       distribution as well.

       Be warned: The code you find here is very old.  It works for simple
       emails, but when you start with new code then please use more
       sofisticated libraries.  The main reason that you still find this code
       on CPAN, is because many books use it as example.

   Component
       In this distribution, you find

       Mail::Address
           Parse email address from a header line.

       Mail::Cap
           Interpret mailcap files: mappings of file-types to applications as
           used by many command-line email programs.

       Mail::Field
           Simplifies access to (some) email header fields.  Used by
           Mail::Header.

       Mail::Filter
           Process Mail::Internet messages.

       Mail::Header
           Collection of Mail::Field objects, representing the header of a
           Mail::Internet object.

       Mail::Internet
           Represents a single email message, with header and body.

       Mail::Mailer
           Send Mail::Internet emails via direct smtp or local MTA's.

       Mail::Send
           Build a Mail::Internet object, and then send it out using
           Mail::Mailer.

       Mail::Util
           "Smart functions" you should not depend on.

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                      MailTools(3)