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 RFC822 compilant email addresses. As well as being able to create "Mail::Address" objects in the normal manner, "Mail::Address" can extract addresses from the To and Cc lines found in an email message.

CONSTRUCTORS

new( PHRASE,  ADDRESS, [ COMMENT ])
     Mail::Address->new("Perl5 Porters", "perl5-porters@africa.nicoh.com");

    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)

parse( LINE )
     Mail::Address->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

METHODS

phrase ()
    Return the phrase part of the object.

address ()
    Return the address part of the object.

comment ()
    Return the comment part of the object

format ()
    Return a string representing the address in a suitable form to be placed on a To,Cc or Bcc line of a message

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

host ()
    Return the address excluding the user id and '@'

user ()
    Return the address excluding the '@' and the mail domain

path ()
    Unimplemented yet but should return the UUCP path for the message

canon ()
    Unimplemented yet but should return the UUCP canon for the message

AUTHOR
Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT
Copyright (c) 1995-8 Graham Barr. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.