Mail::Field::Generic(3)

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 2001-2007 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