Mail::Mbox::MessageParser - A fast and simple mbox folder reader Mail::Mbox::MessageParser is a feature-poor but very fast mbox parser. It uses the best of three strategies for parsing a mailbox: either using cached folder information, GNU grep, or highly optimized Perl. NEW IN THIS VERSION Version 1.4000: Thu Jul 7 2005 - Fixed a long-standing bug in the parsing of mail messages containing mail attachments. (Thanks to Brian May for the bug report.) - Dropped X-From-Line support for two reasons: (1) it seems to have disappeared from newer versions of Gnus, and (2) this module is for mbox format. (Thanks to Brian May for prompting this.) - Changed the mail parsing so that a blank line *must* separate mail messages, as per mail(5) (http://www.qmail.org/man/man5/mbox.html). Lack of a blank line will cause the second email to be considered to be part of the preceding email. MODULE DEPENDENCIES To use this module, you will need to install: - FileHandle::Unget - Storable: required if you want to use caching - GNU grep(1): required if you want to use grep support - bzip2(1): required if you want to use bzip and bzip2 support - bzip(1): required if you want to use bzip support - tzip(1): required if you want to use tzip support You should be prompted to install modules automatically when you run "perl Makefile.PL". INSTALLATION To install this package, change to the directory where you unarchived this distribution and type the following: perl Makefile.PL make make test make install You can install this package into a non-default location by appending one of the following to the "perl Makefile.PL" command: - "PREFIX=/installation/path" (for installation into a custom location), - "INSTALLDIRS=site" (for installation into site-specific Perl directories) - "INSTALLDIRS=perl" (for installation into standard Perl directories). You will be prompted for program locations. You can suppress these prompts by appending the path to one or more external programs to the "perl Makefile.PL" command. For example, "GREP=/gnu/bin/grep TZIP= GZIP=/gnu/bin/gzip BZIP=/bin/bzip2 BZIP2=/bin/bzip2" would set values for all but one program. "TZIP=" disables compression support and prevents interactive execution. (NOTE: These values are not validated as they are in the interactive query.) If you make the installation into your own directory, then remember that you must tell perl where to search for modules before trying to 'use' them. For example: use lib '/home/userid/lib'; use Mail::Mbox::MessageParser; If make test fails, please see the INSTALLATION PROBLEMS section below. INSTALLATION PROBLEMS If "make test" fails, run make test TEST_VERBOSE=1 and see which test(s) are failing. Please email, to the address below, the *.testoutput and *.testoutput.diff files for the test, which are located in t/temp. For other bugs, see the section REPORTING BUGS below. DOCUMENTATION Just "perldoc Mail::Mbox::MessageParser". After installation on Unix systems, you can also do "man Mail::Mbox::MessageParser". If you are interested in the Cache, Grep, or Perl implementations, you can do the same for Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Cache, Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Grep. and Mail::Mbox::MessageParser::Perl HOMEPAGE Visit http://sourceforge.net/projects/m-m-msgparser/ for the latest version, mailing lists, discussion forums, CVS access, and more. REPORTING BUGS You can report bugs by filing a bug report at the project homepage. Please attach the output files noted above. If the bug is related to processing of a particular mailbox, try to trim the mailbox to the smallest set of emails that still exhibit the problem. Then use the "anonymize_mailbox" program that comes with the distribution to remove any sensitive information, and attach the mailbox to the bug report. COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 1998-Sep 1 2000 Broc Seib. Copyright (c) Sep 1 2000-2004 David Coppit. All rights reserved, save those granted by the license. LICENSE This code is distributed under the GNU General Public License (GPL). See the file LICENSE included in the distribution. AUTHOR David Coppit