Provided by: libcourriel-perl_0.40-1_all 
NAME
Courriel - High level email parsing and manipulation
VERSION
version 0.40
SYNOPSIS
my $email = Courriel->parse( text => $raw_email );
print $email->subject;
print $_->address for $email->participants;
print $email->datetime->year;
if ( my $part = $email->plain_body_part ) {
print $part->content;
}
DESCRIPTION
This class exists to provide a high level API for working with emails, particular for
processing incoming email. It is primarily a wrapper around the other classes in the
Courriel distro, especially Courriel::Headers, Courriel::Part::Single, and
Courriel::Part::Multipart. If you need lower level information about an email, it should
be available from one of these classes.
API
This class provides the following methods:
Courriel->parse( text => $raw_email, is_character => 0|1 )
This parses the given text and returns a new Courriel object. The text can be provided as
a string or a reference to a string.
If you pass a reference, then the scalar underlying the reference will be modified, so
don't pass in something you don't want modified.
By default, Courriel expects that content passed in text is binary data. This means that
it has not been decoded into utf-8 with "Encode::decode()" or by using a
":encoding(UTF-8)" IO layer.
In practice, this doesn't matter for most emails, since they either contain only ASCII
data or they actually do contain binary (non-character) data. However, if an email is
using the 8bit Content-Transfer-Encoding, then this does matter.
If the email has already been decoded, you must set "is_character" to a true value.
It's safest to simply pass binary data to Courriel and let it handle decoding internally.
$email->parts()
Returns an array (not a reference) of the parts this email contains.
$email->part_count()
Returns the number of parts this email contains.
$email->is_multipart()
Returns true if the top-level part is a multipart part, false otherwise.
$email->top_level_part()
Returns the actual top level part for the object. You're probably better off just calling
"$email->parts()" most of the time, since when the email is multipart, the top level part
is just a container.
$email->subject()
Returns the email's Subject header value, or "undef" if it doesn't have one.
$email->datetime()
Returns a DateTime object for the email. The DateTime object is always in the "UTC" time
zone.
This uses the Date header by default one. Otherwise it looks at the date in each Received
header, and then it looks for a Resent-Date header. If none of these exists, it just
returns "DateTime->now()".
$email->from()
This returns a single Email::Address object based on the From header of the email. If the
email has no From header or if the From header is broken, it returns "undef".
$email->participants()
This returns a list of Email::Address objects, one for each unique participant in the
email. This includes any address in the From, To, or CC headers.
Just like with the From header, broken addresses will not be included.
$email->recipients()
This returns a list of Email::Address objects, one for each unique recipient in the email.
This includes any address in the To or CC headers.
Just like with the From header, broken addresses will not be included.
$email->to()
This returns a list of Email::Address objects, one for each unique address in the To
header.
Just like with the From header, broken addresses will not be included.
$email->cc()
This returns a list of Email::Address objects, one for each unique address in the CC
header.
Just like with the From header, broken addresses will not be included.
$email->plain_body_part()
This returns the first Courriel::Part::Single object in the email with a mime type of
"text/plain" and an inline disposition, if one exists.
$email->html_body_part()
This returns the first Courriel::Part::Single object in the email with a mime type of
"text/html" and an inline disposition, if one exists.
$email->clone_without_attachments()
Returns a new Courriel object that only contains inline parts from the original email,
effectively removing all attachments.
$email->first_part_matching( sub { ... } )
Given a subroutine reference, this method calls that subroutine for each part in the
email, in a depth-first search.
The subroutine receives the part as its only argument. If it returns true, this method
returns that part.
$email->all_parts_matching( sub { ... } )
Given a subroutine reference, this method calls that subroutine for each part in the
email, in a depth-first search.
The subroutine receives the part as its only argument. If it returns true, this method
includes that part.
This method returns all of the parts that match the subroutine.
$email->content_type()
Returns the Courriel::Header::ContentType object associated with the email.
$email->headers()
Returns the Courriel::Headers object for this email.
$email->stream_to( output => $output )
This method will send the stringified email to the specified output. The output can be a
subroutine reference, a filehandle, or an object with a "print()" method. The output may
be sent as a single string, as a list of strings, or via multiple calls to the output.
For large emails, streaming can be much more memory efficient than generating a single
string in memory.
$email->as_string()
Returns the email as a string, along with its headers. Lines will be terminated with
"\r\n".
ROBUSTNESS PRINCIPLE
Courriel aims to respect the common Internet robustness principle (aka Postel's law).
Courriel is conservative in the output it generates, and liberal in what it accepts.
When parsing, the goal is to never die and always return as much information as possible.
Any input that causes the "Courriel->parse()" to die means there's a bug in the parser.
Please report these bugs.
Conversely, Courriel aims to respect all relevant RFCs in its output, except when it
preserves the original data in a parsed email. If you're using Courriel::Builder to create
emails from scratch, any output that isn't RFC-compliant is a bug.
FUTURE PLANS
This release is still rough, and I have some plans for additional features:
More methods for walking all parts
Some more methods for walking/collecting multiple parts would be useful.
More?
Stay tuned for details.
WHY DID I WRITE THIS MODULE?
There a lot of email modules/distros on CPAN. Why didn't I use/fix one of them?
• Mail::Box
This one probably does everything this module does and more, but it's really, really
big and complicated, forcing the end user to make a lot of choices just to get
started. If you need it, it's great, but I generally find it to be too much module for
me.
• Email::Simple and Email::MIME
These are surprisingly not simple. They suffer from a problematic API (too high level
in some spots, too low in others), and a poor separation of concerns. I've hacked on
these enough to know that I can never make them do what I want.
• Everything Else
There's a lot of other email modules on CPAN, but none of them really seem any better
than the ones mentioned above.
CREDITS
This module rips some chunks of code from a few other places, notably several of the Email
suite modules.
BUGS
Please report any bugs or feature requests to "bug-courriel@rt.cpan.org", or through the
web interface at <http://rt.cpan.org>. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically
be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.
DONATIONS
If you'd like to thank me for the work I've done on this module, please consider making a
"donation" to me via PayPal. I spend a lot of free time creating free software, and would
appreciate any support you'd care to offer.
Please note that I am not suggesting that you must do this in order for me to continue
working on this particular software. I will continue to do so, inasmuch as I have in the
past, for as long as it interests me.
Similarly, a donation made in this way will probably not make me work on this software
much more, unless I get so many donations that I can consider working on free software
full time, which seems unlikely at best.
To donate, log into PayPal and send money to autarch@urth.org or use the button on this
page: <http://www.urth.org/~autarch/fs-donation.html>
AUTHOR
Dave Rolsky <autarch@urth.org>
CONTRIBUTORS
• Gregory Oschwald <goschwald@maxmind.com>
• Ricardo Signes <rjbs@users.noreply.github.com>
• Zbigniew Łukasiak <zzbbyy@gmail.com>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is Copyright (c) 2016 by Dave Rolsky.
This is free software, licensed under:
The Artistic License 2.0 (GPL Compatible)