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29 lines
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This module communicates with an IMAP server. Each IMAP server command is
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mapped to a method of this object.
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Although other IMAP modules exist on CPAN, this has several advantages
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over other modules.
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* It parses the more complex IMAP structures like envelopes and body
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structures into nice Perl data structures.
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* It correctly supports atoms, quoted strings and literals at any
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point. Some parsers in other modules aren't fully IMAP compatiable and may
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break at odd times with certain messages on some servers.
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* It allows large return values (eg. attachments on a message) to be
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read directly into a file, rather than into memory.
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* It includes some helper functions to find the actual text/plain or
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text/html part of a message out of a complex MIME structure. It also can
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find a list of attachements, and CID links for HTML messages with attached
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images.
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* It supports decoding of MIME headers to Perl utf-8 strings
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automatically, so you don't have to deal with MIME encoded headers
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(enabled optionally).
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While the IMAP protocol does allow for asynchronous running of commands,
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this module is designed to be used in a synchronous manner. That is, you
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issue a command by calling a method, and the command will block until the
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appropriate response is returned. The method will then return the parsed
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results from the given command.
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WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-IMAPTalk
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Author: Rob Mueller <cpan@robm.fastmail.fm>
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