Mail::...Listbox(3pm)

💖 Mail::ListDetector::Detector::Listbox 💖

okay bestie, welcome to the manual page for Mail::...Listbox(3pm) — yes that's the perl manpage name, yes it's giving "my module name is a whole sentence", we move. This is a Listbox message detector and she's here to clock whether a mail is a post to a Listbox mailing list. Let's get into it 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Mail::ListDetector::Detector::Listbox — a Listbox message detector, periodt.

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🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

use Mail::ListDetector::Detector::Listbox;

that's it, that's the whole vibe. one line. slay.

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

so basically this is an implementation of a mailing list detector, specifically for Listbox mailing lists. and what is Listbox, you ask? it's a commercial list hosting service — if you wanna know more about Listbox itself, the details live at http://www.listbox.com/. iykyk 🫶

now here's the tea, and it's important tea 🍓: Listbox mailing list messages look like RFC2919 messages to the current RFC2919 detector — although they are not compliant. not compliant!! the audacity. 😭 but this module comes through with more information, and she does not test for their full compliance (unlike, say, a future RFC2919 module might — that's future-bestie's problem, not ours).

and because of that exact reason: this module must be installed before the RFC2919 module. no cap. that's the order. don't fight it. ✨

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🎀 METHODS 🎀

💜 new()

inherited from Mail::ListDetector::Detector::Base. she's not reinventing the wheel, she's borrowing it. iconic behaviour honestly.

🌈 match()

accepts a Mail::Internet object and returns either:

• a Mail::ListDetector::List object — if it is a post to a Listbox mailing list 🔥
• undef — if it is not 💀

that's it. match made, or match denied. the drama of it all.

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💅 BUGS 💅

no known bugs. (yes we're as shocked as you are. she's flawless. 👑)

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⭐ NOTES ⭐

huge thank you to Mark Overmeer <Mark@Overmeer.net> for asking, and to Meng Weng Wong <mengwong@pobox.com> for adding the List-Software header to Listbox mails so this detector could be more robust. kings, honestly. the way they just... made it better. obsessed. 🫶

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🧚 AUTHOR 🧚

• 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 licensing moment, because we respect legal besties: this library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. periodt. 💖

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okay that's the whole page, bestie! 💖 no SEE ALSO section in this one, so nothing to link out to — just you, me, and a very compliant-adjacent Listbox detector.

and a lil sign-off for the record books: this page comes from perl v5.36.0, dated 2022-11-29. written by the Perl documentation girlies, read by you, at Mail::...Listbox(3pm). bye bestie, go detect some lists! 🎀✨🦋