Mail::Message::Construct::Reply(3pm)			User Contributed Perl Documentation		      Mail::Message::Construct::Reply(3pm)

NAME

       Mail::Message::Construct::Reply - reply to a Mail::Message

SYNOPSIS

	my Mail::Message $reply = $message->reply;
	my $quoted  = $message->replyPrelude($head->get('From'));

DESCRIPTION

       Complex functionality on Mail::Message objects is implemented in different files which are autoloaded.  This file implements the
       functionality related to creating message replies.

METHODS

   Constructing a message
       $obj->reply(OPTIONS)
	   Start a reply to this message. Some of the header-lines of the original message will be taken. A message-id will be assigned. Some
	   header lines will be updated to facilitate message-thread detection (see Mail::Box::Thread::Manager).

	   You may reply to a whole message or a message part.	You may wish to overrule some of the default header settings for the reply
	   immediately, or you may do that later with "set" on the header.

	   ADDRESSES may be specified as string, or a Mail::Address object, or as array of Mail::Address objects.

	   All OPTIONS which are not listed below AND start with a capital, will be added as additional headers to the reply message.

	    -Option	    --Default
	     Bcc	      undef
	     Cc 	      <'cc' in current>
	     From	      <'to' in current>
	     Message-ID       <uniquely generated>
	     Subject	      replySubject()
	     To 	      <sender in current>
	     body	      undef
	     group_reply      <true>
	     include	      'INLINE'
	     max_signature    10
	     message_type     Mail::Message
	     postlude	      undef
	     prelude	      undef
	     quote	      '> '
	     signature	      undef
	     strip_signature  qr/^--s/

	   Bcc => ADDRESSES
	     Receivers of blind carbon copies: their names will not be published to other message receivers.

	   Cc => ADDRESSES
	     The carbon-copy receivers, by default a copy of the "Cc" field of the source message.

	   From => ADDRESSES
	     Your identification, by default taken from the "To" field of the source message.

	   Message-ID => STRING
	     Supply a STRING as specific message-id for the reply.  By default, one is generated for you.  If there are no angles around your id,
	     they will be added.

	   Subject => STRING|CODE
	     Force the subject line to the specific STRING, or the result of the subroutine specified by CODE.	The subroutine will be called
	     passing the subject of the original message as only argument.  By default, Mail::Message::replySubject() is used.

	   To => ADDRESSES
	     The destination of your message.  By default taken from the "Reply-To" field in the source message.  If that field is not present as
	     well, the "From" line is scanned.	If they all fail, "undef" is returned by this method: no reply message produced.

	   body => BODY
	     Usually, the reply method can create a nice, sufficient message from the source message's body.  In case you like more complicated
	     reformatting, you may also create a body yourself first, and pass this on to this "reply" method. Some of the other options to this
	     method will be ingored in this case.

	   group_reply => BOOLEAN
	     Will the people listed in the "Cc" headers (those who received the message where you reply to now) also receive this message as
	     carbon copy?

	   include => 'NO'|'INLINE'|'ATTACH'
	     Must the message where this is a reply to be included in the message?  If "NO" then not.  With "INLINE" a reply body is composed.
	     "ATTACH" will create a multi-part body, where the original message is added after the specified body.  It is only possible to inline
	     textual messages, therefore binary or multipart messages will always be enclosed as attachment.

	   max_signature => INTEGER
	     Passed to "stripSignature" on the body as parameter "max_lines".  Only effective for single-part messages.

	   message_type => CLASS
	     Create a message with the requested type.	By default, it will be a Mail::Message.  This is correct, because it will be coerced into
	     the correct folder message type when it is added to that folder.

	   postlude => BODY|LINES
	     The line(s) which to be added after the quoted reply lines.  Create a body for it first.  This should not include the signature,
	     which has its own option.	The signature will be added after the postlude when the reply is INLINEd.

	   prelude => BODY|LINES
	     The line(s) which will be added before the quoted reply lines.  If nothing is specified, the result of the replyPrelude() method is
	     taken.  When "undef" is specified, no prelude will be added.

	   quote => CODE|STRING
	     Mangle the lines of an "INLINE"d reply with CODE, or by prepending a STRING to each line.	The routine specified by CODE is called
	     when the line is in $_.

	     By default, '> ' is added before each line.  Specify "undef" to disable quoting.  This option is processed after the body has been
	     decoded.

	   signature => BODY|MESSAGE
	     The signature to be added in case of a multi-part reply.  The mime-type of the signature body should indicate this is a used as such.
	     However, in INLINE mode, the body will be taken, a line containing '-- ' added before it, and added behind the epilogue.

	   strip_signature => REGEXP|STRING|CODE
	     Remove the signature of the sender.  The value of this parameter is passed to Mail::Message::Body::stripSignature(pattern) unless the
	     source text is not included.  The signature is stripped from the message before quoting.

	     When a multipart body is encountered, and the message is included to ATTACH, the parts which look like signatures will be removed.
	     If only one message remains, it will be the added as single attachment, otherwise a nested multipart will be the result.  The value
	     of this option does not matter, as long as it is present.	See Mail::Message::Body::Multipart.

	   example:

	     my $reply = $msg->reply
	      ( prelude 	=> "No spam, please!

"
	      , postlude	=> "
Greetings
"
	      , strip_signature => 1
	      , signature	=> $my_pgp_key
	      , group_reply	=> 1
	      , 'X-Extra'	=> 'additional header'
	      );

       $obj->replyPrelude([STRING|FIELD|ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-THINGS])
	   Produces a list of lines (usually only one), which will preceded the quoted body of the message.  STRING must comply to the RFC822
	   email address specification, and is usually the content of a "To" or "From" header line.  If a FIELD is specified, the field's body
	   must be compliant.  Without argument -or when the argument is "undef"- a slightly different line is produced.

	   An characteristic example of the output is

	    On Thu Oct 13 04:54:34 1995, him@example.com wrote:

       $obj->replySubject(STRING)
       Mail::Message->replySubject(STRING)
	   Create a subject for a message which is a reply for this one.  This routine tries to count the level of reply in subject field, and
	   transform it into a standard form.  Please contribute improvements.

	   example:

	    subject		    --> Re: subject
	    Re: subject 	    --> Re[2]: subject
	    Re[X]: subject	    --> Re[X+1]: subject
	    subject (Re)	    --> Re[2]: subject
	    subject (Forw)	    --> Re[2]: subject
	    <blank>		    --> Re: your mail

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Cannot include reply source as $include.
	   Unknown alternative for the "include" option of reply().  Valid choices are "NO", "INLINE", and "ATTACH".

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

       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 v5.14.2							    2012-05-07				      Mail::Message::Construct::Reply(3pm)