NAME¶
Mail::ListDetector - Perl extension for detecting mailing list messages
SYNOPSIS¶
use Mail::ListDetector;
DESCRIPTION¶
This module analyzes mail objects in any of the classes handled by
Email::Abstract. It returns a Mail::ListDetector::List object representing the
mailing list.
The RFC2369 mailing list detector is also capable of matching some Mailman and
Ezmlm messages. It is deliberately checked last to allow the more specific
Mailman and Ezmlm parsing to happen first, and more accurately identify the
type of mailing list involved.
METHODS¶
new¶
This method is the core of the module. Pass it a mail object, it will either
return a Mail::ListDetector::List object that describes the mailing list that
the message was posted to, or "undef" if it appears not to have been
a mailing list post.
register_plugin($plugin_name)¶
Registers a new plugin module that might recognise lists. Should be a subclass
of Mail::ListDetector::Detector::Base, and provide the same interface as the
other detector modules.
You can eval arbitrary perl code with this, so don't do that if that's not what
you want.
EMAILS USED¶
This module includes a number of sample emails from various mailing lists. In
all cases, mails are used with permission of the author, and must not be
distributed separately from this archive. If you believe I may have
accidentally used your email or content without permission, contact me, and if
this turns out to be the case I will immediately remove it from the latest
version of the archive.
BUGS¶
- •
- A lot of the code applies fairly simple regular expressions
to email address to extract information. This may fall over for really
weird email addresses, but I'm hoping no-one will use those for names of
mailing lists.
- •
- The majordomo and smartlist recognisers don't have much to
go on, and therefore are probably not as reliable as the other detectors.
This is liable to be hard to fix.
- •
- Forwarding messages (for example using procmail) can
sometimes break the "Sender: " header information needed to
recognise some list types.
AUTHORS¶
- •
- Michael Stevens - michael@etla.org.
- •
- Andy Turner - turner@mikomi.org.
- •
- Adam Lazur - adam@lazur.org.
- •
- Peter Oliver - p.d.oliver@mavit.freeserve.co.uk
- •
- Matthew Walker - matthew@walker.wattle.id.au
- •
- Tatsuhiko Miyagawa - miyagawa@bulknews.net
- •
- johnnnnnn - john@phaedrusdeinus.org
- •
- Mik Firestone - mik@racerx.homedns.org
- •
- Simon Cozens - simon@simon-cozens.org
SEE ALSO¶
perl(1). The Mail::Audit::List module, which is a convenient way of using
Mail::Audit and Mail::ListDetector together.
