NAME

Mail::Field::AddrList - object representation of e-mail address lists

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Field::AddrList
   is a Mail::Field

SYNOPSIS

  use Mail::Field::AddrList;

  $to   = Mail::Field->new('To');
  $from = Mail::Field->new('From', 'poe@daimi.aau.dk (Peter Orbaek)');
  
  $from->create('foo@bar.com' => 'Mr. Foo', poe => 'Peter');
  $from->parse('foo@bar.com (Mr Foo), Peter Orbaek <poe>');

  # make a RFC822 header string
  print $from->stringify(),"\n";

  # extract e-mail addresses and names
  @addresses = $from->addresses(); # strings
  @names     = $from->names();     # strings
  @addr      = $from->addr_list(); # Mail::Address objects (v2.00)

  # adjoin a new address to the list
  $from->set_address('foo@bar.com', 'Mr. Foo');

DESCRIPTION

Defines parsing and formatting of address field, for the following fields: To, From, Cc, Reply-To, and Sender.

All the normally used features of the address field specification of RFC2822 are implemented, but some complex (and therefore hardly ever used) constructs will not be inderstood. Use Mail::Message::Field::Full in MailBox if you need full RFC compliance.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Field::AddrList->combine(FIELDS)

See Constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

Mail::Field::AddrList->extract(TAG, HEAD [, INDEX ])

See Constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

Mail::Field::AddrList->new(TAG [, STRING | OPTIONS])

See Constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

``Fake'' constructors

$obj->create(OPTIONS)

See ``Fake'' constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

$obj->parse

See ``Fake'' constructors in the Mail::Field manpage

Accessors

$obj->set(OPTIONS)

See Accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

$obj->stringify

See Accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

$obj->tag

Mail::Field::AddrList->tag

See Accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

Smart accessors

$obj->addr_list

Returns the collected Mail::Address objects.

$obj->addresses

Returns a list if email addresses, found in the field content.

$obj->names

Returns a list of nicely formatted named, for each of the addresses found in the content.

$obj->set_address(EMAIL, NAME)

Add/replace an EMAIL address to the field.

$obj->text([STRING])

See Smart accessors in the Mail::Field manpage

DETAILS

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Undefined subroutine <method> called

Mail::Field objects use autoloading to compile new functionality. Apparently, the mehod called is not implemented for the specific class of the field object.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without 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 2001-2007 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

Mail::Field::AddrList - object representation of e-mail address lists