# Mail::Box::Tie - phpMan

## NAME
    [Mail::Box::Tie] - access an existing message-folder as an array or hash

## SYNOPSIS
    As an array:

     use [Mail::Box::Tie];
     tie my(@inbox), [Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY] => $folder;
     tie my(@inbox), [Mail::Box::Tie] => $folder;    # deprecated
     print $inbox[3];

    or as hash:

     tie my(%inbox), [Mail::Box::Tie::HASH] => $folder;
     tie my(%inbox), [Mail::Box::Tie] => $folder;    # deprecated
     print $inbox{'<<12379.124879@example.com>>'};

## DESCRIPTION
    The use of "[Mail::Box::Tie]" is deprecated, because it is succeeded by
    two separate modules: [Mail::Box::Tie::ARRAY] and [Mail::Box::Tie::HASH].
    However, this module still works.

    Folders certainly look like an array of messages, so why not just access
    them as one? Or, the order is not important, but the message-ids are
    (give relations): why not access them from a hash based on this
    message-id? Programs using one of these ties will look simpler than
    programs using the more traditional method calls.

## METHODS
## SEE ALSO
    This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 3.009, built on
    August 18, 2020. Website: <http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/>

## LICENSE
    Copyrights 2001-2020 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see
    ChangeLog.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
    under the same terms as Perl itself. See <http://dev.perl.org/licenses/>