Mail::Field::Generic(3) 				User Contributed Perl Documentation				   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.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Field::Generic->combine(FIELDS)

	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])

	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])

	   See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

   "Fake" constructors
       $obj->create(OPTIONS)

	Option--Default
	Text	''

	   . Text => STRING

       $obj->parse([STRING])

	   Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.

   Accessors
       $obj->set(OPTIONS)

	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->stringify

	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->tag

       Mail::Field::Generic->tag

	   See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
       $obj->text([STRING])

	   See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called

	   Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.  Apparently, the mehod 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

perl v5.12.1							    2010-01-26						   Mail::Field::Generic(3)