MailTools(3)

NAME
MailTools - bundle of ancient email modules

SYNOPSIS
 # This is a place-holder for the distribution

DESCRIPTION
MailTools is a bundle: an ancient form of combining packages into one distribution. Gladly, it can be distributed as if it is a normal distribution as well.

Be warned: The code you find here is very old. It works for simple emails, but when you start with new code then please use more sofisticated libraries. The main reason that you still find this code on CPAN, is because many books use it as example.

  Component
In this distribution, you find

Mail::Address
    Parse email address from a header line.

Mail::Cap
    Interpret mailcap files: mappings of file-types to applications as used by many command-line email programs.

Mail::Field
    Simplifies access to (some) email header fields. Used by Mail::Header.

Mail::Filter
    Process Mail::Internet messages.

Mail::Header
    Collection of Mail::Field objects, representing the header of a Mail::Internet object.

Mail::Internet
    Represents a single email message, with header and body.

Mail::Mailer
    Send Mail::Internet emails via direct smtp or local MTA's.

Mail::Send
    Build a Mail::Internet object, and then send it out using Mail::Mailer.

Mail::Util
    "Smart functions" you should not depend on.

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 2001-2024 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