Mail::Server(3pm)

💌 Mail::Server — the manual page, but make it cute

okay bestie, this is Mail::Server(3pm), one of those User Contributed Perl Documentation pages, and honestly? it's the blueprint page. the blueprint page. it doesn't do much itself but everything else is like "yeah that's my parent." 🫶

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✨ NAME ✨

Mail::Server — the base class for email servers in MailBox. that's it, that's the whole job description. it's giving "team lead who attends every meeting and says nothing." 💅

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🌸 INHERITANCE 🌸

the family tree goes like this:

Mail::Server
  is a Mail::Reporter

Mail::Server is extended by
  Mail::Server::IMAP4

so Mail::Server is a Mail::Reporter (yes it inherited the reporting genes 💖) and it gets extended by Mail::Server::IMAP4. that's the whole glow-up lineage, no cap.

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🎀 SYNOPSIS 🎀

here's how you'd literally summon one, verbatim:

my $server = Mail::Server::IMAP4->new($msg);
my $server = Mail::Server::POP3->new($msg);

yes bestie, POP3 shows up in the example even though it's not in the inheritance list — iykyk, i'm just the messenger 💀

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so full transparency: this module is a place-holder, logical in the class hierarchy. it exists to sit in the tree and be a vibe. on the moment, no full server has been implemented, but some parts of IMAP4 do exist. so like, a partial slay. a slay in progress. 🔥

Servers:

• Mail::Server::IMAP4 — a partial IMAP4 implementation. partial! not full! we said what we said.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Reporter.

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💜 METHODS 💜

Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Reporter. that's the whole section bestie, i'm not gonna pad it out. go read Mail::Reporter. 🎀

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⭐ DETAILS ⭐

…nothing. absolutely nothing. the details are a mystery. the details are the friends we made along the way. ✨ (the original page has this heading and then, iconic behaviour, zero content. so we're keeping it exactly that way. main character silence.)

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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. so like, your cousin can drive and you can't. 🙈

probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package. (yes, "probably" twice. that's the original's energy, i'm not softening it.)

Cast by notImplemented(). periodt.

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🌈 SEE ALSO 🌈

this module is part of Mail-Box version 4.02, built on April 10, 2026. 🗓️

Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

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👑 LICENSE 👑

for contributors see file ChangeLog. (the receipts live there, bestie.)

This software is copyright (c) 2001-2026 by Mark Overmeer. twenty-five years of commits. that's longevity, that's legacy, that's iconic. 🫶

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself. so go off, remix it, you have permission fr fr. 💖

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lowkey a warning for the road: this page is a place-holder, and the diagnostic above is a fatal error. don't be the class that doesn't implement the method. be the class that does. 🧚

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and that's the whole page, bestie!! 🎀✨ generated by perl v5.40.1, dated 2026-05-09, and we are obsessed. mwah. 💅🍓