• NAME
• INHERITANCE
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• METHODS
• Constructors
• Constructing a message
• The message
• The header
• The body
• Flags
• The whole message as text
• Internals
• Error handling
• Cleanup
• DIAGNOSTICS
• DETAILS
• REFERENCES
• COPYRIGHTS

NAME

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed - a destructed message

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Box::Message::Destructed
   is a Mail::Box::Message
   is a Mail::Message
   is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

 $folder->message(3)->destruct;

DESCRIPTION

When a message folder is read, each message will be parsed into Perl structures. Especially the header structure can consume a huge amount of memory (message bodies can be moved to external temporary files). Destructed messages have forcefully cleaned-up all header and body information, and are therefore much smaller. Some useful information is still in the object.

BE WARNED: once a message is destructed, it cannot be revived. Destructing enforces irreversable deletion from the folder. If you have a folder opened for read-only, the message will stay in that folder, but otherwise it may be deleted.

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->clone(OPTIONS)

See Constructors in the Mail::Message manpage

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->new(MESSAGE-ID, OPTIONS)

You cannot instantiate a destructed message object. Destruction is done by calling Mail::Box::Message::destruct().

 Option      Defined in       Default                                                       
 body        L<Mail::Message>  undef                                                         
 body_type   L<Mail::Box::Message>  <from folder>                                                 
 deleted     L<Mail::Message>  <false>                                                       
 field_type  L<Mail::Message>  undef                                                         
 folder      L<Mail::Box::Message>  <required>                                                    
 head        L<Mail::Message>  undef                                                         
 head_type   L<Mail::Message>  L<Mail::Message::Head::Complete|Mail::Message::Head::Complete>
 labels      L<Mail::Message>  {}                                                            
 log         L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'>                                                 
 messageId   L<Mail::Message>  undef                                                         
 modified    L<Mail::Message>  <false>                                                       
 size        L<Mail::Box::Message>  undef                                                         
 trace       L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'>                                                 
 trusted     L<Mail::Message>  <false>

. body OBJECT

. body_type CODE|CLASS

. deleted BOOLEAN

. field_type CLASS

. folder FOLDER

. head OBJECT

. head_type CLASS

. labels ARRAY|HASH

. log LEVEL

. messageId STRING

. modified BOOLEAN

. size INTEGER

. trace LEVEL

. trusted BOOLEAN

Constructing a message

$obj->bounce([RG-OBJECT|OPTIONS])

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Bounce manpage

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->build([MESSAGE|PART|BODY], CONTENT)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Build manpage

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->buildFromBody(BODY, [HEAD], HEADERS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Build manpage

$obj->forward(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardAttach(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardEncapsulate(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardInline(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardNo(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardPostlude

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardPrelude

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

$obj->forwardSubject(STRING)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Forward manpage

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->read(FILEHANDLE|SCALAR|REF-SCALAR|ARRAY-OF-LINES, OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Read manpage

$obj->rebuild(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Rebuild manpage

$obj->reply(OPTIONS)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Reply manpage

$obj->replyPrelude([STRING|FIELD|ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-THINGS])

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Reply manpage

$obj->replySubject(STRING)

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->replySubject(STRING)

See Constructing a message in the Mail::Message::Construct::Reply manpage

The message

$obj->container

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->copyTo(FOLDER, OPTIONS)

See The message in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->folder([FOLDER])

See The message in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->isDummy

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->isPart

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->messageId

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->moveTo(FOLDER, OPTIONS)

See The message in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->print([FILEHANDLE])

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->send([MAILER], OPTIONS)

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->seqnr([INTEGER])

See The message in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->size

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->toplevel

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->write([FILEHANDLE])

See The message in the Mail::Message manpage

The header

$obj->bcc

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->cc

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->date

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->destinations

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->from

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->get(FIELDNAME)

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->guessTimestamp

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->head([HEAD])

When undef is specified for HEAD, no change has to take place and the method returns silently. In all other cases, this method will complain that the header has been removed.

$obj->nrLines

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->sender

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->study(FIELDNAME)

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->subject

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->timestamp

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->to

See The header in the Mail::Message manpage

The body

$obj->body([BODY])

When undef is specified for BODY, no change has to take place and the method returns silently. In all other cases, this method will complain that the body data has been removed.

$obj->decoded(OPTIONS)

See The body in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->encode(OPTIONS)

See The body in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->isMultipart

See The body in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->isNested

See The body in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->parts(['ALL'|'ACTIVE'|'DELETED'|'RECURSE'|FILTER])

See The body in the Mail::Message manpage

Flags

$obj->delete

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->deleted([BOOLEAN])

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->isDeleted

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->isModified

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->label(LABEL|PAIRS)

It is possible to delete a destructed message, but not to undelete it.

$obj->labels

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->labelsToStatus

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->modified([BOOLEAN])

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->statusToLabels

See Flags in the Mail::Message manpage

The whole message as text

$obj->file

See The whole message as text in the Mail::Message::Construct::Text manpage

$obj->lines

See The whole message as text in the Mail::Message::Construct::Text manpage

$obj->printStructure([FILEHANDLE|undef],[INDENT])

See The whole message as text in the Mail::Message::Construct::Text manpage

$obj->string

See The whole message as text in the Mail::Message::Construct::Text manpage

Internals

$obj->clonedFrom

See Internals in the Mail::Message manpage

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->coerce(MESSAGE)

Coerce a Mail::Box::Message into destruction.

Example: of coercion to death

 Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->coerce($folder->message(1));
 $folder->message(1)->destruct;  # same

 my $msg = $folder->message(1);
 Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->coerce($msg);
 $msg->destruct;                 # same

$obj->diskDelete

See Internals in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->isDelayed

See Internals in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->readBody(PARSER, HEAD [, BODYTYPE])

See Internals in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->readFromParser(PARSER, [BODYTYPE])

See Internals in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->readHead(PARSER [,CLASS])

See Internals in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->recursiveRebuildPart(PART, OPTIONS)

See Internals in the Mail::Message::Construct::Rebuild manpage

$obj->storeBody(BODY)

See Internals in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->takeMessageId([STRING])

See Internals in the Mail::Message manpage

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

See METHODS in the Mail::Message::Construct manpage

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->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::Message::Destructed->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->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->shortSize([VALUE])

Mail::Box::Message::Destructed->shortSize([VALUE])

See Error handling in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->shortString

See Error handling in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->warnings

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

See Cleanup in the Mail::Message manpage

$obj->destruct

See Cleanup in the Mail::Box::Message manpage

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See Cleanup in the Mail::Reporter manpage

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Cannot coerce a (class) into destruction

Only real Mail::Box::Message objects can get destructed into Mail::Box::Message::Destructed objects. Mail::Message free their memory immediately when the last reference is lost.

Error: Cannot include forward source as $include.

Unknown alternative for the forward(include). Valid choices are NO, INLINE, ATTACH, and ENCAPSULATE.

Error: Cannot include reply source as $include.

Unknown alternative for the include option of reply(). Valid choices are NO, INLINE, and ATTACH.

Error: Destructed message has no labels except 'deleted'

Error: Destructed messages can not be undeleted

Once a message is destructed, it can not be revived. Destruction is an optimization in memory usage: if you need an undelete functionality, then you can not use Mail::Box::Message::destruct().

Error: No address to create forwarded to.

If a forward message is created, a destination address must be specified.

Error: No default mailer found to send message.

The message send() mechanism had not enough information to automatically find a mail transfer agent to sent this message. Specify a mailer explicitly using the via options.

Error: Only build() Mail::Message's; they are not in a folder yet

You may wish to construct a message to be stored in a some kind of folder, but you need to do that in two steps. First, create a normal Mail::Message, and then add it to the folder. During this Mail::Box::addMessage() process, the message will get coerce()-d into the right message type, adding storage information and the like.

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.

Error: You cannot instantiate a destructed message

You cannot instantiate a destructed message object directly. Destruction is done by calling Mail::Box::Message::destruct() on any existing folder message.

Error: You cannot take the head/body of a destructed message

The message originated from a folder, but its memory has been freed-up forcefully by means of Mail::Box::Message::destruct(). Apparently, your program still tries to get to the header or body data after this destruction, which is not possible.

Error: forwardAttach requires a preamble object

Error: forwardEncapsulate requires a preamble object

Error: no rebuild rule $name defined.

DETAILS

REFERENCES

See the MailBox website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

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.