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. Maintained by Mark Overmeer <mailtools@overmeer.net>

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1995-2001 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.