NAME

       Mail::Message::Construct::Text - capture a Mail::Message as text

SYNOPSIS

        my $text = $msg->string;
        my $text = "$msg";   # via overload

        my @text = $msg->lines;
        my @text = @$lines;  # via overload

        my $fh   = $msg->file;
        my $line = <$fh>;

        $msg->printStructure;

DESCRIPTION

       Complex functionality on Mail::Message objects is implemented in different files which are
       autoloaded.  This file implements the functionality related to creating message replies.

METHODS

   The whole message as text
       $obj->file()
           Returns the message as file-handle.

       $obj->lines()
           Returns the whole message as set of lines.  In LIST context, copies of the lines are
           returned.  In SCALAR context, a reference to an array of lines is returned.

       $obj->printStructure([FILEHANDLE|undef],[INDENT])
           Print the structure of a message to the specified FILEHANDLE or the selected
           filehandle.  When explicitly "undef" is specified as handle, then the output will be
           returned as string.

           The message's subject and the types of all composing parts are displayed.

           INDENT specifies the initial indentation string: it is added in front of each line.
           The INDENT must contain at least one white-space.

           example:

            my $msg = ...;
            $msg->printStructure(\*OUTPUT);

            $msg->printStructure;

            my $struct = $msg->printStructure(undef);

            # Possible output for one message:
            multipart/mixed: forwarded message from Pietje Puk (1550 bytes)
               text/plain (164 bytes)
               message/rfc822 (1043 bytes)
                  multipart/alternative: A multipart alternative (942 bytes)
                     text/plain (148 bytes, deleted)
                     text/html (358 bytes)

       $obj->string()
           Returns the whole message as string.

   Flags

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.110, built on January 05, 2014.
       Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2001-2014 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://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html