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Mail-Box-2.076
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/ Mail::Message::Field::Address

NAME

Mail::Message::Field::Address - One e-mail address

INHERITANCE

Mail::Message::Field::Address
  is a Mail::Identity
  is a User::Identity::Item

SYNOPSIS

my $addr = Mail::Message::Field::Address->new(...);

my $ui   = User::Identity->new(...);
my $addr = Mail::Message::Field::Address->coerce($ui);

my $mi   = Mail::Identity->new(...);
my $addr = Mail::Message::Field::Address->coerce($mi);

print $addr->address;
print $addr->fullName;   # possibly unicode!
print $addr->domain;

DESCRIPTION

Many header fields can contain e-mail addresses. Each e-mail address can be represented by an object of this class. These objects will handle interpretation and character set encoding and decoding for you.

OVERLOADED

overload: boolean

    The object used as boolean will always return true

overload: stringification

    When the object is used in string context, it will return the encoded representation of the e-mail address, just like string() does.

METHODS

Constructors

$obj->coerce(STRING|OBJECT, OPTIONS)

    Try to coerce the OBJECT into a Mail::Message::Field::Address. In case of a STRING, it is interpreted as an email address.

    The OPTIONS are passed to the object creation, and overrule the values found in the OBJECT. The result may be undef or a newly created object. If the OBJECT is already of the correct type, it is returned unmodified.

    The OBJECT may currently be a Mail::Address, a Mail::Identity, or a User::Identity. In case of the latter, one of the user's addresses is chosen at random.

$obj->from(OBJECT)

Mail::Message::Field::Address->new([NAME], OPTIONS)

$obj->parse(STRING)

    Parse the string for an address. You never know whether one or more addresses are specified on a line (often applications are wrong), therefore, the STRING is first parsed for as many addresses as possible and then the one is taken at random.

Attributes

$obj->address

$obj->charset

$obj->comment([STRING])

$obj->description

$obj->domain

$obj->language

$obj->location

$obj->name([NEWNAME])

$obj->organization

$obj->phrase

$obj->username

Collections

$obj->add(COLLECTION, ROLE)

$obj->addCollection(OBJECT | ([TYPE], OPTIONS))

$obj->collection(NAME)

$obj->find(COLLECTION, ROLE)

$obj->parent([PARENT])

$obj->removeCollection(OBJECT|NAME)

$obj->type

Mail::Message::Field::Address->type

$obj->user

Access to the content

$obj->string

    Returns an RFC compliant e-mail address, which will have character set encoding if needed. The objects are also overloaded to call this method in string context.

    example:

    print $address->string;
print $address;          # via overloading

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: $object is not a collection.

Error: Cannot coerce a $type into a Mail::Message::Field::Address

    When addresses are specified to be included in header fields, they may be coerced into Mail::Message::Field::Address objects first. What you specify is not accepted as address specification. This may be an internal error.

Error: Cannot load collection module for $type ($class).

    Either the specified $type does not exist, or that module named $class returns compilation errors. If the type as specified in the warning is not the name of a package, you specified a nickname which was not defined. Maybe you forgot the 'require' the package which defines the nickname.

Error: Creation of a collection via $class failed.

    The $class did compile, but it was not possible to create an object of that class using the options you specified.

Error: Don't know what type of collection you want to add.

    If you add a collection, it must either by a collection object or a list of options which can be used to create a collection object. In the latter case, the type of collection must be specified.

Warning: No collection $name

    The collection with $name does not exist and can not be created.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.076, built on October 24, 2007. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2007 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

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