NAME

Sisimai::Mail::Mbox - Mailbox reader

SYNOPSIS

    use Sisimai::Mail::Mbox;
    my $mailbox = Sisimai::Mail::Mbox->new('/var/spool/mail/root');
    while( my $r = $mailbox->read ) {
        print $r;   # print contents of each mail in mbox
    }

DESCRIPTION

Sisimai::Mail::Mbox is a mailbox file (UNIX mbox) reader.

CLASS METHODS

"new(path to mbox)"

new() is a constructor of Sisimai::Mail::Mbox

    my $mailbox = Sisimai::Mail::Mbox->new('/var/mail/root');

INSTANCE METHODS

"dir()"

dir() returns the directory name of mbox

    print $mailbox->dir;   # /var/mail

"path()"

path() returns the path to mbox.

    print $mailbox->path;   # /var/mail/root

"file()"

file() returns a file name of the mbox.

    print $mailbox->file;   # root

"size()"

size() returns the file size of the mbox.

    print $mailbox->size;   # 94515

"offset()"

offset() returns offset position for seeking the mbox. The value of "offset" is bytes which have already read.

    print $mailbox->offset;   # 0

"handle()"

handle() returns file handle object (IO::File) of the mbox.

    $mailbox->handle->close;

"read()"

read() works as a iterator for reading each email in the mbox.

    my $mailbox = Sisimai::Mail->new('/var/mail/neko');
    while( my $r = $mailbox->read ) {
        print $r;   # print each email in /var/mail/neko
    }