# Email::MIME::Header - phpMan

## NAME
    [Email::MIME::Header] - the header of a MIME message

## VERSION
    version 1.952

## DESCRIPTION
    This object behaves like a standard [Email::Simple] header, with the
    following changes:

    *   the "header" method automatically decodes encoded headers if
        possible

    *   the "header_as_obj" method returns an object representation of the
        header value

    *   the "header_raw" method returns the raw header; (read only for now)

    *   stringification uses "header_raw" rather than "header"

    Note that "header_set" does not do encoding for you, and expects an
    encoded header. Thus, "header_set" round-trips with "header_raw", not
    "header"! Be sure to properly encode your headers with
    "[Encode::encode]('MIME-Header', $value)" before passing them to
    "header_set". And be sure to use minimal version 2.83 of Encode module
    due to bugs in MIME-Header.

    Alternately, if you have Unicode (character) strings to set in headers,
    use the "header_str_set" method.

## PERL VERSION
    This library should run on perls released even a long time ago. It
    should work on any version of perl released in the last five years.

    Although it may work on older versions of perl, no guarantee is made
    that the minimum required version will not be increased. The version may
    be increased for any reason, and there is no promise that patches will
    be accepted to lower the minimum required perl.

## AUTHORS
    *   Ricardo SIGNES <<rjbs@semiotic.systems>>

    *   Casey West <<casey@geeknest.com>>

    *   Simon Cozens <<simon@cpan.org>>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
    This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Simon Cozens and Casey West.

    This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under
    the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.