Mail::Util(3)						User Contributed Perl Documentation					     Mail::Util(3)

NAME

       Mail::Util - mail utility functions

INHERITANCE

	Mail::Util
	  is a Exporter

SYNOPSIS

	 use Mail::Util qw( ... );

DESCRIPTION

       This package provides several mail related utility functions. Any function required must by explicitly listed on the use line to be
       exported into the calling package.

FUNCTIONS

       mailaddress

	   Return a guess at the current users mail address. The user can force the return value by setting the MAILADDRESS environment variable.

	   WARNING: When not supplied via the environment variable, <mailaddress> looks at various configuration files and other environmental
	   data. Although this seems to be smart behavior, this is not predictable enough (IMHO) to be used.  Please set the MAILADDRESS
	   explicitly, and do not trust on the "automatic detection", even when that produces a correct address (on the moment)

	   example:

	    # in your main script
	    $ENV{MAILADDRESS} = 'me@example.com';

	    # everywhere else
	    use Mail::Util 'mailaddress';
	    print mailaddress;

       maildomain

	   Attempt to determine the current uers mail domain string via the following methods

	   o   Look for the MAILDOMAIN enviroment variable, which can be set from outside the program.	This is by far the best way to configure
	       the domain.

	   o   Look for a sendmail.cf file and extract DH parameter

	   o   Look for a smail config file and usr the first host defined in hostname(s)

	   o   Try an SMTP connect (if Net::SMTP exists) first to mailhost then localhost

	   o   Use value from Net::Domain::domainname (if Net::Domain exists)

	   WARNING: On modern machines, there is only one good way to provide information to this method: the first; always explicitly configure
	   the MAILDOMAIN.

	   example:

	    # in your main script
	    $ENV{MAILDOMAIN} = 'example.com';

	    # everywhere else
	    use Mail::Util 'maildomain';
	    print maildomain;

       read_mbox(FILE)

	   Read FILE, a binmail mailbox file, and return a list of  references.  Each reference is a reference to an array containg one message.

	   WARNING: This method does not quote lines which accidentally also start with the message separator "From", so this implementation can
	   be considered broken.  See Mail::Box::Mbox

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::Util(3)