NAME

Mail::Ezmlm::Archive - Object Methods for Ezmlm-Idx Archives

SYNOPSIS

 use Mail::Ezmlm::Archive;
 $archive = Mail::Ezmlm::Archive->new('/path/to/list/folder');


 $message_count = $archive->getcount;
 @available_months = $archive->getmonths;
 $threads = $archive->getthreads('200304');

ABSTRACT

Mail::Ezmlm::Archive is designed to provide an object interface to the message archives maintained by the ezmlm-idx software. See the ezmlm web page for a complete description of that software: <http://www.ezmlm.org>.

This version is designed to work with ezmlm 0.53 and ezmlm-idx 0.40.

DESCRIPTION

Setting up a new Archive object

        use Mail::Ezmlm::Archive;
        $archive = Mail::Ezmlm::Archive->new('/path/to/list/folder');

Changing which list the Archive object points at

        $archive->setlist('/full/path/to/other/list');

Getting count of archived messages

        $message_count = $archive->getcount;

Actually the getcount methods reads message count from DIR/num file, so we'd better consider the result as count of distributed messages instead of archived.

Getting a list of months

        @available_months = $archive->getmonths;

This returns an array of strings in the 'YYYYMM' format, such as '200304', which represent months for which we have archived messages.

Getting a list of threads in a given month

        $threads = $archive->getthreads('200304');

This method returns a reference to an array, whose elements are hashes with these keys:

subject: The subject of the thread, as archived in DIR/archived/threads/$month
count: Count of messages in the thread
offset: Id of first message in the thread
id: Thread Id.
date: The date of last message in the thread, as archived in DIR/archived/threads/$month

Getting list of messages in a given thread

        $messages = $archive->getthread('nknmgklhcgijmbonmbkk');

This method returns a reference to a hash, which has two keys: 'subject' and 'messages'. The former contains the subject of the first message in the thread. The latter is a reference to an array, whose elements are hashes with these keys:

id: Message Id for retrieving.
month: Month of the message, in 'YYYYMM' format
authorid: Author Id
author: Full value of the 'From:' line

Retrieving a message

        $message = $archive->getmessage('52');

CACHING

All opened files are cached by default, so that we do not need to overload the filesystem for doing normal listing and browsing operations. However, caching can be disabled to reduce memory usage:

        $archive->nocache;

Then, to enable it again:

        $archive->cache;

BUGS AND LIMITATIONS

No methods for author-based browsing.
Not enough object oriented, maybe? :-)

AVAILABILITY

You can download the latest version from CPAN ( http://search.cpan.org ). You are very welcome to write mail to the author (alex@primafila.net) with your comments, suggestions, bug reports and complaints.

COPYRIGHT

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

AUTHOR

 Alessandro Ranellucci <alex@primafila.net>

Mail::Ezmlm::Archive - Object Methods for Ezmlm-Idx Archives