Net::IMAP::Server::Command - A command in the IMAP server

Commands the IMAP server knows about should be subclasses of this. They will want to override the validate and run methods.

Called by the connection to create a new command.

Gets or sets the Net::IMAP::Server associated with this command.

Gets or sets the Net::IMAP::Server::Connection associated with this command.

Called before the command is run. If it returns a false value, the command is not run; it will probably want to inspect parsed_options. If validate returns a false value, it is responsible for calling no_command or bad_command to notify the client of the failure. Handily, these return a false value.

Does the guts of the command. The return value is ignored; the command is in charge of eventually sending one of ok_command, bad_command, or no_command to the client.

The default implementation simply always response with bad_command.

Analyzes the options line, and returns true if the line has literals (as defined in the RFC, a literal is of the form {42}). If the line has literals, installs a pending in Net::IMAP::Server::Connection callback to continue the parsing, and returns true.

Parses the options, and puts the results (which may be a data structure) into parsed_options.

Returns the (arbitrary) string that the client identified the command with.

Returns the list of options to the command.

Returns the flat string representation of the options the client gave.

Returns a string representing the most probable IMAP string that conveys the DATA.

• Array references are converted into "parenthesized lists," and each element is recursively output.
• Scalar references are dereferenced and returned as-is.
• undef is output as NIL.
• Scalar values containing special characters are output as literals
• Purely numerical scalar values are output with no change
• All other scalar values are output within quotes.

Since the IMAP specification contains nothing which is similar to a hash, hash references are treated specially; specifically, the type key is taken to be how the value key should be output. Options for type are string or literal.

Sends an untagged response to the client.

Sends a tagged response to the client.

Returns a true value if the command should send untagged updates about the selected mailbox after the command completes. Defaults to always true.

Sends untagged updates about the currently selected inbox to the client using send_untagged in Net::IMAP::Server::Connection, but only if the command has a true poll_after.

Sends untagged OK responses for any RESPONSECODE pairs, then outputs untagged messages via send_untagged, then sends a tagged OK with the given MESSAGE.

Sends an OK COMPLETED tagged response to the client.

Sends untagged NO responses for any RESPONSECODE pairs, then outputs untagged messages via send_untagged, then sends a tagged OK with the given MESSAGE.

Sends any untagged updates to the client using send_untagged, then sends a tagged BAD response with the given REASON.

Defers to log in Net::IMAP::Server::Connection.

Identical to out in Net::IMAP::Server::Connection.