Mail::Address − parse mail addresses
use
Mail::Address;
my @addrs = Mail::Address−>parse($line);
foreach $addr (@addrs) {
print $addr−>format,"\n";
}
"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
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no support for address groups, even not with the semi-colon as separator between addresses; | ||
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limited support for escapes in phrases and comments. There are cases where it can get wrong; and | ||
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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;
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−[email protected]");
$obj−>parse($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);
$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.
$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
This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.
The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.
Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <[email protected]>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <[email protected]>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <[email protected]>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
Copyrights 1995−2000 Graham Barr <[email protected]> and 2001−2017 Mark Overmeer <[email protected]>.
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