The best way to get that into the module is to send a patch to the module maintainer. The last release was in January this year, which certainly doesn't feel as if the module is unmaintained.

The ideal way to submit a patch is through RT (https://rt.cpan.org/Dist/Display.html?Name=Net-IMAP-Client) for this distribution (as for most) and also a very convenient way to inform others about your intention of change even if the original module author does not implement your change quickly (enough).

The second best way is to send the proposed addition instead of a patch file via the same mechanism.

I haven't looked into the test infrastructure of Net::IMAP::Client, but I figure it does not come with its own IMAP test server, so simply amending whatever tests there are for ->rfc822_body to also call ->peek_rfc822_body and expect the same results feels sensible.

In reply to Re^4: How to stop get_rfc822_body method of Net::IMAP::Client package to mark an unread email as read ? by Corion
in thread How to stop get_rfc822_body method of Net::IMAP::Client package to mark an unread email as read ? by pankaj_it09

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