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Mail::Cap(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Cap(3pm)
NAME
Mail::Cap - understand mailcap files
SYNOPSIS
my $mc = Mail::Cap->new;
my $desc = $mc->description('image/gif');
print "GIF desc: $desc\n";
my $cmd = $mc->viewCmd('text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1', 'file.txt');
DESCRIPTION
Parse mailcap files as specified in "RFC 1524 --A User Agent Configuration Mechanism For
Multimedia Mail Format Information>. In the description below $type refers to the MIME
type as specified in the "Content-Type" header of mail or HTTP messages. Examples of
types are:
image/gif
text/html
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
You could also take a look at the File::MimeInfo distribution, which are accessing tables
which are used by many applications on a system, and therefore have succeeded the mail-cap
specifications on modern (UNIX) systems.
METHODS
Constructors
Mail::Cap->new(%options)
Create and initialize a new Mail::Cap object. If you give it an argument it will try
to parse the specified file. Without any arguments it will search for the mailcap
file using the standard mailcap path, or the MAILCAPS environment variable if it is
defined.
-Option --Default
filename undef
take 'FIRST'
filename => FILENAME
Add the specified file to the list to standard locations. This file is tried first.
take => 'ALL'|'FIRST'
Include all mailcap files you can find. By default, only the first file is parsed,
however the RFC tells us to include ALL. To maintain backwards compatibility, the
default only takes the FIRST.
example:
$mcap = new Mail::Cap;
$mcap = new Mail::Cap "/mydir/mailcap";
$mcap = new Mail::Cap filename => "/mydir/mailcap";
$mcap = new Mail::Cap take => 'ALL';
$mcap = Mail::Cap->new(take => 'ALL');
Run commands
These methods invoke a suitable program presenting or manipulating the media object in the
specified file. They all return 1 if a command was found, and 0 otherwise. You might
test $? for the outcome of the command.
$obj->compose($type, $file)
$obj->edit($type, $file)
$obj->print($type, $file)
$obj->view($type, $file)
Command creator
These methods return a string that is suitable for feeding to system() in order to invoke
a suitable program presenting or manipulating the media object in the specified file. It
will return "undef" if no suitable specification exists.
$obj->composeCmd($type, $file)
$obj->editCmd($type, $file)
$obj->printCmd($type, $file)
$obj->viewCmd($type, $file)
Look-up definitions
Methods return the corresponding mailcap field for the type.
$obj->description($type)
$obj->field($type, $field)
Returns the specified field for the type. Returns undef if no specification exists.
$obj->nametemplate($type)
$obj->textualnewlines($type)
$obj->x11_bitmap($type)
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 AT oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek
<poe AT cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce AT ig.uk>. For other
contributors see ChangeLog.
LICENSE
Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr AT pobox.com> and 2001-2017 Mark Overmeer
<perl AT 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
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