Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat(3)

Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat - Reformat plain text messages

Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat
  is a Mail::Message::Convert
  is a Mail::Reporter

use Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat;
my $af = Mail::Message::Convert::TextAutoformat->new;
my $beautified_body = $af->autoformatBody($body);

Play trics with plain text, for instance bodies with type "text/plain" using Damian Conway's Text::Autoformat.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Message::Convert.

Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Message::Convert.

Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Message::Convert.

$class->new(%options)
Inherited, see "Constructors" in Mail::Reporter 
-Option --Defined in            --Default
 fields   Mail::Message::Convert  <see description>
 options                          +{ all => 1 }
The %af options to pass to Text::Autoformat function autoformat().

Extends "Attributes" in Mail::Message::Convert.

Extends "Converting" in Mail::Message::Convert.

$obj->autoformatBody($body)
Formats a single message body (a Mail::Message::Body object) into a new body object using Text::Autoformat.

The body should have content type "text/plain", otherwise the output is probably weird.

$obj->selectedFields($head)
Inherited, see "Converting" in Mail::Message::Convert

Extends "Error handling" in Mail::Message::Convert.

$obj->AUTOLOAD()
Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
$obj->notImplemented()
Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

Extends "Cleanup" in Mail::Message::Convert.

$obj->DESTROY()
Inherited, see "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

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. Cast by notImplemented()

This module is part of Mail-Message version 4.04, built on February 04, 2026. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

For contributors see file ChangeLog.

This software is copyright (c) 2001-2026 by Mark Overmeer.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

2026-02-05 perl v5.42.0