Mail::Box::MH::Index - keep index files for messages. |
Mail::Box::MH::Index - keep index files for messages.
Mail::Box::MH::Index is a Mail::Reporter
my $index = Mail::Box::MH::Index->new; $index->read(...) $index->write(...)
Message folders which store their data in one single file per message are
very inefficient for producing subject overviews and for computing message
threads. The Mail::Box::MH::Index
object is able to store and read a the
headers of a set of Mail::Box::MH::Message
messages which are
part of a single Mail::Box::MH
folder in one file.
When the Mail::Box::MH::Index
functionality is enabled by specifying
Mail::Box::MH::new(keep_index) when opening a folder, the index file
is automatically read. When the folder is closed, a new index file is
created.
Special care is taken to avoid problems which occur when the user changes or removes message files without updating the index. If the index is not trustworthy it will not be used (costing some performance for the reader of the folder).
Mail::Box::MH::Index->new(OPTIONS)
Option Defined in Default filename <required> head_type L<Mail::Message::Head::Subset|Mail::Message::Head::Subset> head_wrap 72 log L<Mail::Reporter> C<'WARNINGS'> trace L<Mail::Reporter> C<'WARNINGS'>
. filename FILENAME
The FILENAME which is used to store the headers of all the e-mails for one folder. This must be an absolute pathname.
. head_type CLASS
The type of headers which will be used to store header information when it is read from the index file. You can not be sure the index contains all header line (the mailbox may have been updated without updating the index) so this will usually be (an sub-class of) Mail::Message::Head::Subset.
. head_wrap INTEGER
The preferred number of character in each header line.
. log LEVEL
. trace LEVEL
$obj->filename
Returns the name of the index file.
$obj->get(MSGFILE)
Look if there is header info for the specified MSGFILE. The filename
represents one message in folder type which are organized as directory.
This method will return an object of the new(head_type) as specified
during creation of the index object, or undef
if the information
is not known or not trustworthy -i.e. the file size changed.
$obj->read
Read the index file. The header objects can after this be requested
with the get()
method.
$obj->write(MESSAGES)
Write an index file containing the headers specified MESSAGES (Mail::Message objects).
$obj->AUTOLOAD
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->addReport(OBJECT)
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])
Mail::Box::MH::Index->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->errors
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])
Mail::Box::MH::Index->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)
Mail::Box::MH::Index->logPriority(LEVEL)
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->logSettings
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->notImplemented
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->report([LEVEL])
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->trace([LEVEL])
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->warnings
See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->DESTROY
See Cleanup in the Mail::Reporter manpage
$obj->inGlobalDestruction
See Cleanup in the Mail::Reporter manpage
Error: Package $package does not implement $method.
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.
See the MailBox website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.
Distribution version 2.059. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net) See the ChangeLog for other contributors.
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
Mail::Box::MH::Index - keep index files for messages. |