Mail::Address(3)                               User Contributed Perl Documentation                              Mail::Address(3)



NAME
       Mail::Address - Parse mail addresses

SYNOPSIS
        use Mail::Address;
        my @addrs = Mail::Address->parse($line);

        foreach $addr (@addrs) {
            print $addr->format,"\n";
        }

DESCRIPTION
       "Mail::Address" extracts and manipulates email addresses from a message header.  It cannot be used to extract addresses
       from some random text.  You can use this module to create RFC822 compliant fields.

       Although "Mail::Address" is a very popular subject for books, and is used in many applications, it does a very poor job
       on the more complex message fields.  It does only handle simple address formats (which covers about 95% of what can be
       found). Problems are with

       o   no support for address groups, even not with the semi-colon as separator between addresses;

       o   limitted support for escapes in phrases and comments.  There are cases where it can get wrong; and

       o   you have to take care of most escaping when you create an address yourself: "Mail::Address" does not do that for you.

       Often requests are made to the maintainers of this code improve this situation, but this is not a good idea, where it
       will break zillions of existing applications.  If you wish for a fully RFC2822 compliant implementation you may take a
       look at Mail::Message::Field::Full, part of MailBox.

       example:

         my $s = Mail::Message::Field::Full->parse($header);
         # ref $s isa Mail::Message::Field::Addresses;

         my @g = $s->groups;          # all groups, at least one
         # ref $g[0] isa Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup;
         my $ga = $g[0]->addresses;   # group addresses

         my @a = $s->addresses;       # all addresses
         # ref $a[0] isa Mail::Message::Field::Address;

METHODS
   Constructors
       Mail::Address->new(PHRASE, ADDRESS, [ COMMENT ])

           Create a new "Mail::Address" object which represents an address with the elements given. In a message these 3
           elements would be seen like:

            PHRASE <ADDRESS> (COMMENT)
            ADDRESS (COMMENT)

           example:

            Mail::Address->new("Perl5 Porters", "perl5-portersATafrica.com");

       $obj->parse(LINE)

           Parse the given line a return a list of extracted "Mail::Address" objects.  The line would normally be one taken from
           a To,Cc or Bcc line in a message

           example:

            my @addr = Mail::Address->parse($line);

   Accessors
       $obj->address

           Return the address part of the object.

       $obj->comment

           Return the comment part of the object

       $obj->format([ADDRESSes])

           Return a string representing the address in a suitable form to be placed on a "To", "Cc", or "Bcc" line of a message.
           This method is called on the first ADDRESS to be used; other specified ADDRESSes will be appended, separated with
           commas.

       $obj->phrase

           Return the phrase part of the object.

   Smart accessors
       $obj->host

           Return the address excluding the user id and '@'

       $obj->name

           Using the information contained within the object attempt to identify what the person or groups name is.

       $obj->user

           Return the address excluding the '@' and the mail domain

SEE ALSO
       This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS
       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to
       further development.

       Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aasAToslonett.no>.  Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poeATcit.dk>.  Mail::Mailer and
       Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.BunceATig.uk>.  For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE
       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarrATpobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perlATovermeer.net>.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html



perl v5.12.2                                               2010-10-01                                           Mail::Address(3)