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This module communicates with an IMAP server. Each IMAP server command
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is mapped to a method of this object.
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Although other IMAP modules exist on CPAN, this has several advantages
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over other modules:
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* It parses the more complex IMAP structures like envelopes and body
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structures into nice Perl data structures.
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* It correctly supports atoms, quoted strings and literals at any point.
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Some parsers in other modules aren't fully IMAP compatible and may
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break at odd times with certain messages on some servers.
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* It allows large return values (eg. attachments on a message) to be
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read directly into a file, rather than into memory.
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* It includes some helper functions to find the actual text/plain or
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text/html part of a message out of a complex MIME structure. It also can
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find a list of attachments, and CID links for HTML messages with
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attached images.
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* It supports decoding of MIME headers to Perl utf-8 strings
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automatically, so you don't have to deal with MIME encoded headers
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(enabled optionally).
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