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Mail::Cap(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation   Mail::Cap(3)

NAME
       Mail::Cap - Parse mailcap files

SYNOPSIS
	   my $mc = new Mail::Cap;

	   $desc = $mc->description('image/gif');

	   print "GIF desc: $desc\n";

	   $cmd = $mc->viewCmd('text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1', 'file.txt');

DESCRIPTION
       Parse mailcap files as specified in RFC 1524 - A User
       Agent Configuration Mechanism For Multimedia Mail Format
       Information.  In the description below $type refers to the
       MIME type as specified in the Content-Type header of mail
       or HTTP messages.  Examples of types are:

	 image/gif
	 text/html
	 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1

METHODS
       new()

	 $mcap = new Mail::Cap;
	 $mcap = new Mail::Cap "/mydir/mailcap";

       Create and initialize a new Mail::Cap object.  If you give
       it an argument it will try to parse the specified file.
       Without any arguments it will search for the mailcap file
       using the standard mailcap path, or the MAILCAPS
       environment variable if it is defined.

       view($type, $file)

       compose($type, $file)

       edit($type, $file)

       print($type, $file)

       These methods invoke a suitable progam presenting or
       manipulating the media object in the specified file.  They
       all return 1 if a command was found, and 0 otherwise.  You
       might test C<$?" for the outcome of the command.

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Mail::Cap(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation   Mail::Cap(3)

       viewCmd($type, $file)

       composeCmd($type, $file)

       editCmd($type, $file)

       printCmd($type, $file)

       These methods return a string that is suitable for feeding
       to system() in order to invoke a suitable progam
       presenting or manipulating the media object in the
       specified file.	It will return undef if no suitable
       specification exists.

       field($type, $field)

       Returns the specified field for the type.  Returns undef
       if no specification exsists.

       description($type)

       textualnewlines($type)

       x11_bitmap($type)

       nametemplate($type)

       These methods return the corresponding mailcap field for
       the type.  These methods should be more convenient to use
       than the field() method for the same fields.

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1995 Gisle Aas. All rights reserved.

       This library is free software; you can redistribute it
       and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

AUTHOR
       Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>

       Maintained by Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

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Mail::Cap(3)   User Contributed Perl Documentation   Mail::Cap(3)

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