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NAME
    MailTools - bundle of ancient email modules

SYNOPSIS
     # This is a place-holder for the distribution

DESCRIPTION
    MailTools is a bundle: an ancient form of combining packages into one distribution. Gladly, it
    can be distributed as if it is a normal distribution as well.

    Be warned: The code you find here is very old. It works for simple emails, but when you start
    with new code then please use more sofisticated libraries. The main reason that you still find
    this code on CPAN, is because many books use it as example.

  Component
    In this distribution, you find

    Mail::Address
        Parse email address from a header line.

    Mail::Cap
        Interpret mailcap files: mappings of file-types to applications as used by many command-line
        email programs.

    Mail::Field
        Simplifies access to (some) email header fields. Used by Mail::Header.

    Mail::Filter
        Process Mail::Internet messages.

    Mail::Header
        Collection of Mail::Field objects, representing the header of a Mail::Internet object.

    Mail::Internet
        Represents a single email message, with header and body.

    Mail::Mailer
        Send Mail::Internet emails via direct smtp or local MTA's.

    Mail::Send
        Build a Mail::Internet object, and then send it out using Mail::Mailer.

    Mail::Util
        "Smart functions" you should not depend on.

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