1Mail::Cap(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Cap(3)
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6 Mail::Cap - understand mailcap files
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9 my $mc = Mail::Cap->new;
10 my $desc = $mc->description('image/gif');
12 print "GIF desc: $desc\n";
13 my $cmd = $mc->viewCmd('text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1', 'file.txt');
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17 Parse mailcap files as specified in "RFC 1524 --A User Agent
18 Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format Information>. In
19 the description below $type refers to the MIME type as specified in the
20 "Content-Type" header of mail or HTTP messages. Examples of types are:
21 image/gif
23 text/html
24 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
25 You could also take a look at the File::MimeInfo distribution, which
27 are accessing tables which are used by many applications on a system,
28 and therefore have succeeded the mail-cap specifications on modern
29 (UNIX) systems.
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32 Constructors
33 Mail::Cap->new(%options)
34 Create and initialize a new Mail::Cap object. If you give it an
35 argument it will try to parse the specified file. Without any
36 arguments it will search for the mailcap file using the standard
37 mailcap path, or the MAILCAPS environment variable if it is
38 defined.
39 -Option --Default
41 filename undef
42 take 'FIRST'
43 filename => FILENAME
45 Add the specified file to the list to standard locations. This
46 file is tried first.
47 take => 'ALL'|'FIRST'
49 Include all mailcap files you can find. By default, only the
50 first file is parsed, however the RFC tells us to include ALL.
51 To maintain backwards compatibility, the default only takes the
52 FIRST.
53 example:
55 $mcap = new Mail::Cap;
57 $mcap = new Mail::Cap "/mydir/mailcap";
58 $mcap = new Mail::Cap filename => "/mydir/mailcap";
59 $mcap = new Mail::Cap take => 'ALL';
60 $mcap = Mail::Cap->new(take => 'ALL');
61 Run commands
63 These methods invoke a suitable program presenting or manipulating the
64 media object in the specified file. They all return 1 if a command was
65 found, and 0 otherwise. You might test $? for the outcome of the
66 command.
67 $obj->compose($type, $file)
69 $obj->edit($type, $file)
70 $obj->print($type, $file)
71 $obj->view($type, $file)
72 Command creator
74 These methods return a string that is suitable for feeding to system()
75 in order to invoke a suitable program presenting or manipulating the
76 media object in the specified file. It will return "undef" if no
77 suitable specification exists.
78 $obj->composeCmd($type, $file)
80 $obj->editCmd($type, $file)
81 $obj->printCmd($type, $file)
82 $obj->viewCmd($type, $file)
83 Look-up definitions
85 Methods return the corresponding mailcap field for the type.
86 $obj->description($type)
88 $obj->field($type, $field)
89 Returns the specified field for the type. Returns undef if no
90 specification exists.
91 $obj->nametemplate($type)
93 $obj->textualnewlines($type)
94 $obj->x11_bitmap($type)
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97 This module is part of the MailTools distribution,
98 http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.
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101 The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark
102 Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further
103 development.
104 Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by
106 Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
107 <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
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110 Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2017 Mark
111 Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.
112 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
114 under the same terms as Perl itself. See
115 http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
116perl v5.36.0 2023-01-20 Mail::Cap(3)