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 AT 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/