Re: Handling 'Maildir' folder

Mark Overmeer <[email protected]> Sat, 1 May 2004 14:12:40 +0200
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.mail-box
Organization MARKOV Solutions
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* [email protected] ([email protected]) [040428 03:24]:
> In the version I use (2.052), only "POP3.pm" contains
>   sub update() {shift->notImplemented}
> Is it intended that the other mailbox types don't raise an error?

No.  It was not.  It was intended that I had more time to implement
"update" everywhere... but... I do lack time, sorry. Feel free to
contribute ;-)

> >   write a script which purges the e-mails
> >   start it every hour with cron
> As you insist on not calling 'read' and 'write', that would indeed
> be the only solution.
> But why does it seem to be working? [That's right, I currently don't
> understand the consequences of 'weaken'...]

Think in terms of the modules "internal interfaces", which cannot be
sufficiently hidden in Perl5...  The availability and interface to
these methods will not be guaranteed.
-- 
               MarkOv

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