Mail::M...:Binary(3)

💖 Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary — bestie edition 💖

okay so this is a page from the User Contributed Perl Documentation, and the manual name is Mail::M...:Binary(3). yes the name is literally abbreviated like that. no I will not be explaining why, it's giving "the author had a character budget and chose violence" 💅

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✨ NAME ✨

Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary — encode/decode binary message bodies 🦋

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🌸 INHERITANCE 🌸

Mail::Message::TransferEnc::Binary
  is a Mail::Message::TransferEnc
  is a Mail::Reporter

so it's a whole family tree, and our girl is at the top of it. royalty behavior, honestly. 👑

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⭐ SYNOPSIS ⭐

my Mail::Message $msg = ...;
my $decoded = $msg->decoded;
my $encoded = $msg->encode(transfer => 'binary');

literally three lines and you're done. that's it. that's the whole vibe check. 💫

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🎀 DESCRIPTION 🎀

so bestie, here's the tea: this module encodes or decodes message bodies for binary transfer encoding.

and here's the gag — this is totally no encoding. 😭 nothing happens. it's a no-op with a job title. it's the intern who shows up, clocks in, and does absolutely nothing, and honestly? we respect the hustle. 🫶

It extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc.

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💅 METHODS 💅

It extends "METHODS" in Mail::Message::TransferEnc.

(so yeah, the actual methods live with the parent. go check her out, she's iconic.)

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🔥 DIAGNOSTICS 🔥

• Error: class $package does not implement method $method. Fatal error: the specific $package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package. Cast by notImplemented()

ngl this one is a "somebody else's class can do it but this one can't" situation and the universe is asking you to file a bug report. 🙈

• Error: decoder for transfer encoding $type does not work: $@ Compiling the required transfer encoding resulted in errors, which means that the decoder can not be used. Cast by create()

the decoder simply did not cook. 💀

• Error: no decoder for transfer encoding $type. A decoder for the specified type of transfer encoding is not implemented. Cast by create()

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

This module is part of Mail-Message version 4.04, built on February 04, 2026. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

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💜 LICENSE 💜

For contributors see file ChangeLog.

This software is copyright (c) 2001-2026 by Mark Overmeer.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀 this was perl v5.42.0 on 2026-02-05, and the page itself is Mail::M...:Binary(3) — yes, that's really how it's abbreviated on the header AND the footer, and honestly? iconic of it. mwah 💋✨