Mail::Cap(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Cap(3)NAMEMail::Cap - Parse mailcap files
SYNOPSIS
my $mc = new Mail::Cap;
$desc = $mc->description('image/gif');
print "GIF desc: $desc\n";
$cmd = $mc->viewCmd('text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1', 'file.txt');
DESCRIPTION
Parse mailcap files as specified in RFC 1524 - A User
Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format
Information. In the description below $type refers to the
MIME type as specified in the Content-Type header of mail
or HTTP messages. Examples of types are:
image/gif
text/html
text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1
METHODSnew()
$mcap = new Mail::Cap;
$mcap = new Mail::Cap "/mydir/mailcap";
Create and initialize a new Mail::Cap object. If you give
it an argument it will try to parse the specified file.
Without any arguments it will search for the mailcap file
using the standard mailcap path, or the MAILCAPS
environment variable if it is defined.
view($type, $file)
compose($type, $file)
edit($type, $file)
print($type, $file)
These methods invoke a suitable progam presenting or
manipulating the media object in the specified file. They
all return 1 if a command was found, and 0 otherwise. You
might test C<$?" for the outcome of the command.
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viewCmd($type, $file)
composeCmd($type, $file)
editCmd($type, $file)
printCmd($type, $file)
These methods return a string that is suitable for feeding
to system() in order to invoke a suitable progam
presenting or manipulating the media object in the
specified file. It will return undef if no suitable
specification exists.
field($type, $field)
Returns the specified field for the type. Returns undef
if no specification exsists.
description($type)
textualnewlines($type)
x11_bitmap($type)
nametemplate($type)
These methods return the corresponding mailcap field for
the type. These methods should be more convenient to use
than the field() method for the same fields.
COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.
This library is free software; you can redistribute it
and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
AUTHOR
Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
Maintained by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>
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