NAME

Net::IMAP::Simple - Perl extension for simple IMAP account handling, mostly compatible with Net::POP3.


SYNOPSIS

    use Net::IMAP::Simple;

    # open a connection to the IMAP server
    $server = new Net::IMAP::Simple( 'someserver' );

    # login
    $server->login( 'someuser', 'somepassword' );
    
    # select the desired folder
    $number_of_messages = $server->select( 'somefolder' );

    # go through all the messages in the selected folder
    foreach $msg ( 1..$number_of_messages ) {

        if ( $server->seen( $msg ) {
            print "This message has been read before...\n"
        }

        # get the message, returned as a reference to an array of lines
        $lines = $server->get( $msg );

        # print it
        print @$lines;

        # get the message, returned as a temporary file handle
        $fh = $server->getfh( $msg );
        print <$fh>;
        close $fh;

    }

    # the list of all folders
    @folders = $server->mailboxes();

    # create a folder
    $server->create_mailbox( 'newfolder' );

    # rename a folder
    $server->rename_mailbox( 'newfolder', 'renamedfolder' );

    # delete a folder
    $server->delete_mailbox( 'renamedfolder' );

    # copy a message to another folder
    $server->copy( $self, $msg, 'renamedfolder' );

    # close the connection
    $server->quit();


DESCRIPTION

This module is a simple way to access IMAP accounts. The API is mostly equivalent to the Net::POP3 one, with some aditional methods for mailbox handling.


BUGS

I don't know how the module reacts to nested mailboxes.

This module was only tested under the following servers:

Expect some problems with servers from other vendors (then again, if all of them are implementing the IMAP protocol, it should work - but we all know how it goes).


AUTHOR

Joao Fonseca, joao_g_fonseca@yahoo.com


SEE ALSO

Net::IMAP(1), Net::POP3(1).


COPYRIGHT

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.