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This module communicates with an IMAP server. Each IMAP server command is
mapped to a method of this object.
Although other IMAP modules exist on CPAN, this has several advantages
over other modules.
* It parses the more complex IMAP structures like envelopes and body
structures into nice Perl data structures.
* It correctly supports atoms, quoted strings and literals at any
point. Some parsers in other modules aren't fully IMAP compatiable and may
break at odd times with certain messages on some servers.
* It allows large return values (eg. attachments on a message) to be
read directly into a file, rather than into memory.
* It includes some helper functions to find the actual text/plain or
text/html part of a message out of a complex MIME structure. It also can
find a list of attachements, and CID links for HTML messages with attached
images.
* It supports decoding of MIME headers to Perl utf-8 strings
automatically, so you don't have to deal with MIME encoded headers
(enabled optionally).
While the IMAP protocol does allow for asynchronous running of commands,
this module is designed to be used in a synchronous manner. That is, you
issue a command by calling a method, and the command will block until the
appropriate response is returned. The method will then return the parsed
results from the given command.
Author: Rob Mueller <cpan@robm.fastmail.fm>
WWW: http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-IMAPTalk
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