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  Source     Mail::Header - manipulate MIME headers    use
Mail::Header;  my $head = Mail::Header->new;  my $head =
Mail::Header->new( \*STDIN );  my $head = Mail::Header->new(
[<>], Modify => 0);   Read, write, create, and manipulate MIME
headers, the leading part of each modern e-mail message, but
also used in other protocols like HTTP. The fields are kept in
Mail::Field objects.  Be aware that the header fields each have
a name part, which shall be treated case-insensitive, and a
content part, which may be folded over multiple lines.
Mail::Header does not always follow the RFCs strict enough, does
not help you with character encodings. It does not use weak
references where it could (because those did not exist when the
module was written) which costs some performance and make the
implementation a little more complicated. The
Mail::Message::Head implementation is much newer and th