perl-Mail-Box

Complete E-mail handling suite

A Mail::Box::Manager creates 'Mail::Box' objects. But you already knew, because you started with the Mail::Box-Overview manual page. That page is obligatory reading, sorry! 'Mail::Box' is the base class for accessing various types of mailboxes (folders) in a uniform manner. The various folder types vary on how they store their messages, but when some effort those differences could be hidden behind a general API. For example, some folders store many messages in one single file, where other store each message in a separate file within the same directory. No object in your program will be of type 'Mail::Box': it is only used as base class for the real folder types. 'Mail::Box' is extended by Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Reporter.