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Envelope(3)	      User Contributed Perl Documentation	   Envelope(3)

NAME
       Qmail::Envelope - Perl module modifying qmail envelope strings.

SYNOPSIS
	 use Qmail::Envelope;

	 ## When you have received the envelope	from qmail-smtpd
	 my $E = Qmail::Envelope->new (data => $Envelope);

	 ## or if you want to create one on the	fly ...
	 my $E = Qmail::Envelope->new();

	 ## add	a recipient
	 $E->add_recip('foo@bar.com');

	 ## remove a recipient
	 $E->remove_recip('foo@ack.com');

	 ## remove all recipients for a	specific domain
	 $E->remove_recips_for_host('quux.com');

	 ## clear the entire recipient list
	 $E->remove_all_recips;

	 ## get	ref to an array	containing the list of hosts in	the envelope
	 my $host_list = $E->rcpt_hosts;

	 ## get	envelope sender
	 my $sender = $E->sender;

	 ## set	envelope sender
	 $E->sender('blarch@chunk.com');

	 ## get	the total number of recipients in the envelope.
	 ## duplicates are counted.
	 my $number_of_recips =	$E->total_recips;

	 ## get	the total numbers of recips for	a specific host
	 my $number_of_recips =	$E->total_recips_for_host('frobnicate.com');

	 ## remove duplicate recipient entries in the envelope
	 $E->remove_duplicate_recips;

	 ## pretty print the envelope
	 print $E->as_string;

	 ## complete formatted envelope, with terminating null bytes and all.
	 my $envelope =	$E->gen;

DESCRIPTION
       This module takes a qmail envelope, and allows you perform operations
       on it. You can also create qmail	envelopes from scratch.	 A quick
       background: qmail-smtpd hands all mail messages it receives to the mail
       queuer program, qmail-queue.  qmail-queue gets the message (headers and
       body) from qmail-smtpd on file descriptor 1, and	the envelope on	file
       descriptor 2.  Yeah, I thought it was weird at first too.

       Anyway, the envelope is a string	which contains the sender and all of
       the recipients of a mail	message.  This envelope	may or may not match
       the headers of the mail message (think cc and bcc).  The	envelope tells
       qmail-queue where the message is	from, and where	it is going to.

       This module my help you if you have decided to insert a perl script in
       between qmail-smtpd and qmail-queue.  There is an interesting open
       source program called qmail-scanner which (in its documentation)
       explains	how to accomplish this this neat trick.

       I hope this module helps	someone	out there.  I've been using it in a
       production environment for some time now, and it	seems stable.

   EXPORT
       None by default.

SEE ALSO
       Useful to me was	qmail-scanner program, located at:
       http://qmail-scanner.sourceforge.net/

       Also helpful were the man pages for qmail-smtpd,	qmail-queue, and
       envelopes.  They	all come with the qmail	mail server source.

       You can see the other (few) things I've written at
       http://www.avitable.org/software

AUTHOR
       root, <mja-perl@escapement.net>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
       Copyright 2004 by Matt J. Avitable

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

perl v5.32.1			  2004-11-03			   Envelope(3)
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