NAME

       Mail::Field::Generic - implementation for inspecific fields

INHERITANCE

        Mail::Field::Generic
          is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

        use Mail::Field;
        my $field = Mail::Field->new('Subject', 'some subject text');
        my $field = Mail::Field->new(subject => 'some subject text');

DESCRIPTION

       A generic implementation for header fields without own implementation. This is fine for
       fields like "Subject", "X-Mailer", etc., where the field holds only a string of no
       particular importance/format.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Field::Generic->combine(FIELDS)
           See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])
           See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

       Mail::Field::Generic->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])
           See "Constructors" in Mail::Field

   "Fake" constructors
       $obj->create(OPTIONS)
            -Option--Default
             Text    ''

           Text => STRING
       $obj->parse([STRING])
           Set the new text, which is empty when no STRING is provided.

   Accessors
       $obj->set(OPTIONS)
           See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->stringify()
           See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

       $obj->tag()
       Mail::Field::Generic->tag()
           See "Accessors" in Mail::Field

   Smart accessors
       $obj->text([STRING])
           See "Smart accessors" in Mail::Field

DIAGNOSTICS

       Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called
           Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality.  Apparently, the
           mehod called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

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