NAME

       Net::IMAP::SimpleX - Addons for Net::IMAP::Simple

SYNOPSIS

           use strict;
           use warnings;
           use Net::IMAP::SimpleX;

       Net::IMAP::SimpleX uses Net::IMAP::Simple as a base so the object creation is the same as
       it is for the ancestor:

           my $imap = Net::IMAP::SimpleX->new('imap.example.com') ||
              die "Unable to connect to IMAP: $Net::IMAP::Simple::errstr\n";

           $imap->select("INBOX");

       Net::IMAP::SimpleX is a collection of handy methods that are not simple, require
       Parse::RecDescent, or are experimental.

DESCRIPTION

       This module adds some useful, yet not so simple, extensions on top of Net::IMAP::Simple.

METHODS

       new For details on the invocation, read Net::IMAP::Simple.

       body_summary
           Typical invocations will take this overall shape.

               # get an object representation of the message body
               my $summary = $imap->body_summary($message_number);

               # multipart message
               if ($summary->has_parts) {
                   for my $subpart ($summary->parts) {
                       if ($subpart->has_parts) { ... }
                       # examine the message part
                       my @attr = map { $subpart->$_ } qw/content_type encoding encoded_size/;
                       # fetch the raw message part
                       my $subpart_body = $imap->get($message_number, $subpart->part_number);
                   }
               } else {
                   my $body = $summary->body;
                   my @attr = map { $body->$_ } qw/content_type encoding encoded_size/
               }

           This method returns a simple object that contains a representation of the body of a
           message.  The object is built by a Parse::RecDescent parser using the output of an
           IMAP fetch body command.  The parser uses the formal syntax as defined by RFC3501
           <http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3501#section-9>.

               my $body = $summary->body;
               my @attr = map { $body->$_ } qw/
                   content_description
                   encoded_size
                   charset
                   content_type
                   part_number
                   format
                   id
                   encoding
               /;

           For multipart messages, the object contains sub-objects for each message part,
           accessible via the parts() method and inspected via the has_parts() method.  The type
           method describes the type of multipart (such as mixed or alternative).  The parts
           method returns a list of sub parts, which themselves may have subparts, and so on.

           An example of a multipart, alternative message with a text body and an html version of
           the body would looke something like:

               if ($summary->has_parts) {
                   if ($summary->type eq 'alternative') {
                       my ($html) = grep { $_->content_type eq 'text/html' } $summary->parts;
                   }
               }

           A really complex, multipart message could look something like this:

               if ($summary->has_parts && $summary->type eq 'mixed') {

                   for my $part ($summary->parts) {
                       if ($part->has_parts && $part->type eq 'mixed') { ... }
                       ...
                   }

               }

       fetch
           The fetch command returns the various parts of messages that users request.  It is
           fairly complicated (following RFC3501 using a grammar/parser), but there are some
           basic patterns that it follows.

               my $res  =$imap->fetch('30:32' => 'UID BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)] FLAGS')
               # $res = {
               #   30 => {
               #           "BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)]" => "Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:54:48 -0400\r\n\r\n",
               #           "FLAGS" => ["\\Flagged", "\\Seen"],
               #           "UID" => 58890,
               #         },
               #   31 => {
               #           "BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)]" => "Date: Wed, 21 Jul 2010 09:09:04 -0400\r\n\r\n",
               #           "FLAGS" => ["\\Seen"],
               #           "UID" => 58891,
               #         },
               #   32 => {
               #           "BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)]" => "Date: Sat, 24 Jul 2010 05:12:06 -0700\r\n\r\n",
               #           "FLAGS" => ["\\Seen"],
               #           "UID" => 58892,
               #         },
               # }

           So-called "parenthized" lists will be returned as an array (see "FLAGS") but nearly
           everything else will come back as strings.  This includes parenthized queries.  Take
           "BODY.PEAK[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE FROM SUBJECT)]"), for example.  The result would come
           back as the RFC822 header lines (as the above "Date: Sun, ..." has done).

           For more information about the different types of queries, see RFC3501.  There's a
           surprising number of things that can be queried.

       uidfetch
           This is roughly the same thing as the "fetch()" method above, but the query runs on
           UIDs instead of sequence numbers.  The keys of the $res are still the sequence numbers
           though.

               my $res  =$imap->fetch('58890' => 'UID BODY.PEEK[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)] FLAGS')
               # $res = {
               #   30 => {
               #           "BODY[HEADER.FIELDS (DATE)]" => "Date: Sun, 18 Jul 2010 20:54:48 -0400\r\n\r\n",
               #           "FLAGS" => ["\\Flagged", "\\Seen"],
               #           "UID" => 58890,
               #         },
               #   ...

AUTHOR

       INITIAL AUTHOR
           Jason Woodward "<woodwardj@jaos.org>"

       ADDITIONAL CONTRIBUTIONS
           Paul Miller "<jettero@cpan.org>"  [fetch()]

COPYRIGHT

       Copyright (c) 2010 Jason Woodward

       All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
       it under the same terms as Perl itself.

LICENSE

       This module is free software.  You can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of
       the Artistic License 2.0.

       This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but without any warranty;
       without even the implied warranty of merchantability or fitness for a particular purpose.

BUGS

       <https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Queue=Net-IMAP-Simple>

SEE ALSO

       perl, Net::IMAP::Simple, Parse::RecDescent