perl-Email-Abstract: perl-Email-Abstract (unified interface to mail representations) perl-Email-Abstract: perl-Email-Abstract: Email::Abstract provides module writers with the ability to write perl-Email-Abstract: simple, representation-independent mail handling code. For instance, perl-Email-Abstract: in the cases of Mail::Thread or Mail::ListDetector, a key part of the perl-Email-Abstract: code involves reading the headers from a mail object. Where previously perl-Email-Abstract: one would either have to specify the mail class required, or to build perl-Email-Abstract: a new object from scratch, Email::Abstract can be used to perform perl-Email-Abstract: certain simple operations on an object regardless of its underlying perl-Email-Abstract: representation. perl-Email-Abstract: