Mail::...uniGate(3pm)

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version 1.04 · 4 versions
, in debian bookworm, debian trixie, ubuntu noble, ubuntu resolute, ubuntu stonking

💖 Mail::ListDetector::Detector::CommuniGate — the manual, but make it cute 💖

okay bestie, gather round, because we're reading the manual page for Mail::...uniGate(3pm) and honestly? it's giving niche-but-iconic. no cap, this is the whole thing, nothing skipped, so let's go 🫶

✨ NAME ✨

Mail::ListDetector::Detector::CommuniGate — a CommuniGate message detector. that's it, that's the name, short and slay 💅

✨ SYNOPSIS ✨

the whole vibe, in one line:

use Mail::ListDetector::Detector::CommuniGate;

literally just that. load it and go, periodt ✨

✨ DESCRIPTION ✨

so this is an implementation of a mailing list detector, specifically for CommuniGate mailing lists 💌

and what's CommuniGate, you ask? bestie, it's a legacy MacOS messaging application. yes, legacy legacy. the ancient kind. 👑

if you want the details about CommuniGate, the manual points you at:

http://www.stalker.com/mac/default.html

that's the whole lore drop. go look if you're curious 🦋

✨ METHODS ✨

🌸 new()

Inherited from Mail::ListDetector::Detector::Base.

it's not doing anything new here, it's just... inheriting. generational wealth, honestly 💅

🌸 match()

okay this one's the main character 🔥

match() accepts a Mail::Internet object, and then it does the vibe check:

  • if it's a post to a CommuniGate mailing list, you get back a Mail::ListDetector::List object 🎀
  • if it's not, you get undef 💀

that's it. binary. it either is or it isn't. so real of it, fr fr.

✨ BUGS ✨

No known bugs. 😌✨

not a single one. we're perfect, we're flawless, we're unbothered. (iykyk that this is exactly what the manual says, so don't come for me if a bug shows up later 🙈)

✨ AUTHOR ✨

look at this lineup, absolute icons, all of them 👑💖:

  • Matthew Walker — matthew@walker.wattle.id.au
  • Michael Stevens — michael@etla.org
  • Peter Oliver — p.d.oliver@mavit.freeserve.co.uk
  • Tatsuhiko Miyagawa — <miyagawa@bulknews.net>

and the legal bit, keeping it exactly as written:

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

free software, same terms as Perl, no strings attached, we love to see it 🌈

and that's the whole page, bestie!! this manual page came from perl v5.36.0 and it's dated 2022-11-29, so shoutout to that exact little moment in time for giving us this 🎀 mwah, take care, go detect some mailing lists 💅💖🌸

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