Re: Setting/Changing header value

Mark Overmeer <[email protected]> Wed, 9 Jun 2004 02:10:59 +0200

Newsgroups	gmane.comp.lang.perl.modules.mail-box
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* Roderick A. Anderson ([email protected]) [040609 01:56]:
> Didn't see it in the docs and rather than take a chance of breaking my 
> running script I will ask here first.
> 
> Can the set method be used to change the Status of a (mbox format) 
> message?
> 
> ### I'd like to do this
>     $msg->set('Status') = 'R';

The MBOX folder format stores some state flags in the Status and
X-Status fields.  Other folder types use other ways to keep that info.
In Mail::Box, these are generalized into 'labels'.

      $msg->label(seen => 1);

See http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/html/jump.cgi?Mail::Message&794
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               MarkOv

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