NAME Net::IMAP::Simple - Perl extension for simple IMAP account handling. SYNOPSIS use Net::IMAP::Simple; use Email::Simple; my $server = Net::IMAP::Simple->new( 'someserver' ); $server->login( 'someuser', 'somepassword' ); my $nmessages = $server->select( 'somefolder' ); foreach my $msg ( 1 .. $number_of_messages ) { print "This message has been read before...\n" if $server->seen( $msg ); my $email = Email::Simple->new( join '', @{$server->get( $msg )} ); print $email->header('Subject'), "\n"; } $server->quit(); DESCRIPTION This module is a simple way to access IMAP accounts. Methods new my $imap = Net::IMAP::Simple->new( $server ); This class method constructs a new "Net::IMAP::Simple" object. It takes one required parameter, the server to connect to. The parameter may specify just the server, or both the server and port number. To specify an alternate port, seperate it from the server with a colon (":"), "example.com:5143". On success an object is returned. On failure, "undef" is returned. login my $inbox_msgs = $imap->login($user => $passwd); This method takes two required parameters, a username and password. This pair is authenticated against the server. If authentication is successful the user's INBOX is selected. On success, the number of messages in the INBOX is returned. "undef" is returned on failure. select my $num_messages = $imap->select($folder); Selects a folder named in the single required parameter. The number of messages in that folder is returned on success. On failure, "undef" is returned. top my $header = $imap->top( $message_number ); print for @{$header}; This method accepts a message number as its required parameter. That message will be retrieved from the currently selected folder. On success this method returns a list reference containing the lines of the header. "undef" is returned on failure. seen print "Seen it!" if $imap->seen( $message_number ); A message number is the only required parameter for this method. The message's "\Seen" flag will be examined and if the message has been seen a true value is returned. All other failures return a false value. list my $message_size = $imap->list($message_number); my $mailbox_sizes = $imap->list; This method returns size information for a message, as indicated in the single optional parameter, or all messages in a mailbox. When querying a single message a scalar value is returned. When listing the entire mailbox a hash is returned. On failure, "undef" is returned. get my $message = $imap->get( $message_number ); print for @{$message}; This method fetches a message and returns its lines in a list reference. On failure, "undef" is returned. getfh my $file = $imap->getfh( $message_number ); print <$file>; On success this method returns a file handle pointing to the message identified by the required parameter. On failure, "undef" is returned. quit $item->quit; This method logs out of the IMAP server, expunges the selected mailbox, and closes the connection. last my $message_number = $imap->last; This method retuns the message number of the last message in the selected mailbox, since the last time the mailbox was selected. On failure, "undef" is returned. delete print "Gone!" if $imap->delete( $message_number ); This method deletes a message from the selected mailbox. On success it returns true. False on failure. mailboxes my @boxes = $imap->mailboxes; my @folders = $imap->mailboxes("Mail/%"); my @lists = $imap->mailboxes("lists/perl/*", "/Mail/"); This method returns a list of mailboxes. When called with no arguments it recurses from the IMAP root to get all mailboxes. The first optional argument is a mailbox path and the second is the path reference. RFC 3501 has more information. create_mailbox print "Created" if $imap->create_mailbox( "/Mail/lists/perl/advocacy" ); This method creates the mailbox named in the required argument. Returns true on success, false on failure. expunge_mailbox print "Expunged" if $imap->expunge_mailbox( "/Mail/lists/perl/advocacy" ); This method removes all mail marked as deleted in the mailbox named in the required argument. Returns true on success, false on failure. delete_mailbox print "Deleted" if $imap->delete_mailbox( "/Mail/lists/perl/advocacy" ); This method deletes the mailbox named in the required argument. Returns true on success, false on failure. rename_mailbox print "Renamed" if $imap->rename_mailbox( $old => $new ); This method renames the mailbox in the first required argument to the mailbox named in the second required argument. Returns true on success, false on failure. copy print "copied" if $imap->copy( $message_number, $mailbox ); This method copies the message number in the currently seleted mailbox to the fold specified in the second argument. Both arguments are required. On success this method returns true. Returns false on failure. AUTHOR Casey West, . Joao Fonseca, . SEE ALSO Net::IMAP, perl. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2004 Casey West. Copyright (c) 1999 Joao Fonseca. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.