Mail::Address(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Address(3pm)
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
• no support for address groups, even not with the semi-colon as
separator between addresses;
• limited support for escapes in phrases and comments. There are
cases where it can get wrong; and
• 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 $s = Mail::Message::Field::Full->new($from_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-porters@africa.nicoh.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 by 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.
Note: This function tries to be smart with the "phrase" of the email
address, which is probably a very bad idea. Consider to use
phrase() itself.
$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 <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by
Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
<Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
LICENSE
Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2024 Mark
Overmeer <perl@overmeer.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
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