NAME

       Mail::Filter - Filter mail through multiple subroutines

SYNOPSIS

        use Mail::Filter;

        my $filter = Mail::Filter->new( \&filter1, \&filter2 );

        my $mail   = Mail::Internet->new( [<>] );
        my $mail   = $filter->filter($mail);

        my $folder = Mail::Folder->new( .... );
        my $filter->filter($folder);

DESCRIPTION

       "Mail::Filter" provides an interface to filtering Email through multiple subroutines.

       "Mail::Filter" filters mail by calling each filter subroutine in turn. Each filter
       subroutine is called with two arguments, the first is the filter object and the second is
       the mail or folder object being filtered.

       The result from each filter sub is passed to the next filter as the mail object. If a
       filter subroutine returns undef, then "Mail::Filter" will abort and return immediately.

       The function returns the result from the last subroutine to operate on the mail object.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Filter->new( [FILTER [, ... ]] )
           Create a new "Mail::Filter" object with the given filter subroutines. Each filter may
           be either a code reference or the name of a method to call on the <Mail::Filter>
           object.

   Accessors
       $obj->add( FILTER [, FILTER ...] )
           Add the given filters to the end of the filter list.

   Processing
       $obj->filter(MAIL-OBJECT | MAIL-FOLDER)
           If the first argument is a "Mail::Internet" object, then this object will be passed
           through the filter list. If the first argument is a "Mail::Folder" object, then each
           message in turn will be passed through the filter list.

       $obj->folder()
           While the "filter" method is called with a "Mail::Folder" object, these filter
           subroutines can call this method to obtain the folder object that is being processed.

       $obj->msgnum()
           If the "filter" method is called with a "Mail::Folder" object, then the filter
           subroutines may call this method to obtain the message number of the message that is
           being processed.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS

       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark Overmeer took over
       maintenance without commitment to further development.

       Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>.  Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek
       <poe@cit.dk>.  Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>.  For other
       contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer
       <perl@overmeer.net>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same
       terms as Perl itself.  See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html