perldoc > Mail::Box::Tie

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 3.010, built on July 18, 2023. Website:
    http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

LICENSE
    Copyrights 2001-2023 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/