MailTools is one of the oldest modules on CPAN. It started off in 1995, the year Perl 5.0 got released!
Please note: Email has become more complex over the years. These modules only understand very basic emails and fairly simple emails. Later, this module got extended by the MIME::Entity modules... but when you start all over, please look at Mail::Box!
Important to know, is that I use an extension on POD to write the manuals. The "raw" unprocessed version is visible on GitHub. It will run without problems, but does not contain manual-pages.
Releases to CPAN are different: "raw" documentation gets removed from the code and translated into real POD and clean HTML. This reformatting is implemented with the OODoc distribution (A name I chose before OpenOffice existed, sorry for the confusion)
Clone from github for the "raw" version. For instance, when you want to contribute a new feature.
On github, you can find the processed version for each release. But the better source is CPAN; to get it installed simply run:
cpan -i MailTools
When you want to contribute to this module, you do not need to provide a perfect patch... actually: it is nearly impossible to create a patch which I will merge without modification. Usually, I need to adapt the style of code and documentation to my own strict rules.
When you submit an extension, please contribute a set with
code
code documentation
regression tests in t/
Please note: When you contribute in any way, you agree to transfer the copyrights to Mark Overmeer (you will get the honors in the code and/or ChangeLog). You also automatically agree that your contribution is released under the same license as this project: licensed as perl itself.
Graham Barr wrote most of these components, since 2001 maintained by Mark Overmeer. Copyright is with these authors.
This project is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/