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 3.004, built on December 22, 2017.

       Do not forget to read Mail::Box-Overview, Mail::Box-Cookbook, and Mail::Box-Index.
       Examples are included in the Mail-Box distribution, directories 'examples' and 'scripts'.

       Browseable manuals, papers, and other released material van be found at  Website:
       http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

       The central modules (in separate distributions) in the MailBox suite are: Mail::Message,
       Mail::Box, Mail::Box::IMAP4, Mail::Box::POP3, Mail::Box::Parser::C, Mail::Box::Dbx
       (unpublished), Mail::Transport, Object::Realize::Later, and User::Identity.

       Please post questions or ideas to the author markov@cpan.org.

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2001-2017 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/