Re: Count messages in a Imap-Mailfolder

[email protected] (Michelle Konzack)
Newsgroups perl.beginners
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Hello John,

thank you for your answer.

Am 2008-06-02 17:34:30, schrieb John W. Krahn:
> According to the documentation for that module:
> 
>     list
>           my $message_size  = $imap->list($message_number);
>           my $mailbox_sizes = $imap->list;
> 
>         This method returns size information for a message, as indicated
>         in the single optional parameter, or all messages in a mailbox.
>         When querying a single message a scalar value is returned. When
>         listing the entire mailbox a hash is returned. On failure,
>         "undef" is returned.
> 
> 
> So if you use list() with no message number supplied it will return a 
> *reference* to a hash that contains the message numbers as the keys and 
> the corresponding message sizes as the values.

Since I am begining to learn Perl, how do I get the Value from the hash?

Note:  I have no internet @home which mean, I have only the perldoc
       documentation and not more and I have not found the thing
       about hashes.

Thanks, Greetings and nice Day
    Michelle Konzack
    Systemadministrator
    24V Electronic Engineer
    Tamay Dogan Network
    Debian GNU/Linux Consultant


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