NAME

       Mail::Server - Base class for email servers in MailBox

INHERITANCE

        Mail::Server
          is a Mail::Reporter

        Mail::Server is extended by
          Mail::Server::IMAP4

SYNOPSIS

        my $server = Mail::Server::IMAP4->new($msg);
        my $server = Mail::Server::POP3->new($msg);

DESCRIPTION

       This module is a place-holder, logical in the class hierarchy.  On the moment, no full
       server has been implemented, but some parts of IMAP4 exist.

       Servers:

       •   Mail::Server::IMAP4

           Partial IMAP4 implementation.

       Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Reporter.

METHODS

       Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Reporter.

DETAILS

       # This file contains parts which could be used for doc

       * Labels

       Labels are flags which come with a message.  Usually: old, seen, replied, flagged, and
       trashed.

       The folder-types differ how they store label information.  Mbox folders use the Status and
       X-Status fields, MH folders keep a separate labels file called .mh_sequences, and Maildir
       folders put the labels in the name of the file.

       Keeping the labels right is quite complicated.  The `[X-]Status' header lines are only
       immediately updated with Mbox messages which will cause them to be written.  Those lines
       are ignored for MH and Maildir, however updated when a new version of such a message has
       to be written to file.

       The reason behind the MH/Maildir way of storing labels is pure performance: labels are
       often needed.  Opening each message to see how the labels are set is cheap for Mbox, which
       has to read the whole folder on opening anyway, but terribly expensive for directory
       origanized folders (as MH and Maildir) which need to take every single message from a
       separate file.

       Often used labels:
         draft     to be transmitted
         trashed   to be deleted
         flagged   selected
         current   last used
         replied   a response message was constructed
         seen      handled by the user
         old       existence of message seen by user in the previous opening
                   of the folder.

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Package $package does not implement $method.
           Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this
           method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do
           implement this method however the class at hand does not.  Probably you should
           investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

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/