<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"> <head> <meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=us-ascii"/> <title>Creating headers</title> <link rel="stylesheet" href="manpage.css" type="text/css"/> <link rel="start" href="index.html" title="Cone: COnsole Newsreader And Emailer"/> <link rel="up" href="libmail.html" title="LibMAIL reference"/> <link rel="prev" href="folder-tostring.html" title="mail::folder::toString"/> <link rel="next" href="header-addresslist.html" title="mail::Header::addresslist"/> <link xmlns="" rel="icon" href="icon.gif" type="image/gif"/> <meta xmlns="" name="MSSmartTagsPreventParsing" content="TRUE"/> <!-- Copyright 2002 - 2007 Double Precision, Inc. See COPYING for distribution information. --> </head> <body> <div class="navheader"> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"> <tr> <th colspan="3" align="center" rowspan="1">Creating headers</th> </tr> <tr> <td width="20%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="folder-tostring.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <th width="60%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <span class="application">LibMAIL</span> reference</th> <td width="20%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="header-addresslist.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> </table> <hr/> </div> <div class="reference" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <div class="titlepage"> <div> <div> <h1 class="title"><a id="mail-headers" shape="rect" name="mail-headers"> </a>Creating headers</h1> </div> </div> <hr/> </div> <div class="partintro" lang="en" xml:lang="en"> <p>The <span class="structname">mail::Header</span> family of classes provide a convenient way for creating E-mail headers. The usual approach is to instantiate a <a class="link" href="header-list.html" title="mail::Header::list" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::Header::list</span>(3x)</span></a> object, then use the “<span class="quote"><<</span>” operator repeatedly with any combination of <a class="link" href="header-addresslist.html" title="mail::Header::addresslist" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::Header::addresslist</span>(3x)</span></a>, <a class="link" href="header-encoded.html" title="mail::Header::encoded" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::Header::encoded</span>(3x)</span></a>, <a class="link" href="header-mime.html" title="mail::Header::mime" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::Header::mime</span>(3x)</span></a> and <a class="link" href="header-plain.html" title="mail::Header::plain" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::Header::plain</span>(3x)</span></a> objects, which format different kinds of E-mail headers. Finally, <a class="link" href="header-list.html" title="mail::Header::list" shape="rect"><span class="citerefentry"><span class="refentrytitle">mail::Header::list</span>(3x)</span></a> <code class="literal">std::string</code> converts the headers to text, and returns a single string containing nicely-formatted headers.</p> </div> </div> <div class="navfooter"> <hr/> <table width="100%" summary="Navigation footer"> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="p" href="folder-tostring.html" shape="rect">Prev</a> </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="u" href="libmail.html" shape="rect">Up</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" rowspan="1" colspan="1">  <a accesskey="n" href="header-addresslist.html" shape="rect">Next</a></td> </tr> <tr> <td width="40%" align="left" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1">mail::folder::toString </td> <td width="20%" align="center" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> <a accesskey="h" href="index.html" shape="rect">Home</a> | <a accesskey="t" href="bk01-toc.html" shape="rect">ToC</a></td> <td width="40%" align="right" valign="top" rowspan="1" colspan="1"> mail::Header::addresslist</td> </tr> </table> </div> </body> </html>