NAME

Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox - MIME encoded mailboxes

VERSION

version 0.97

SYNOPSIS

    use Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox;

    my $mailbox = Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox->parse($string);
    print $mailbox->name,    "\n";
    print $mailbox->address, "\n";

    my $mailbox = Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox->new(
        name    => $name,
        address => $address,
    );
    $email->header_set('To', $mailbox->format());

DESCRIPTION

This module handles RFC 2822 "mailbox"es.

CLASS METHODS

parse

    my $mailbox = Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox->parse($string, [$decoder])

Parse a RFC 2822 "mailbox". Returns a Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox object. $decoder is an optional Email::MIME::RFC2047::Decoder. If it isn't provided, a new temporary decoder is used.

CONSTRUCTOR

new

    my $mailbox = Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox->new(
        name    => $name,
        address => $address,
    );

Creates a new Email::MIME::RFC2047::Mailbox object, optionally with a display name $name and an email address $address.

METHODS

name

    my $name = $mailbox->name;
    $mailbox->name($new_name);

Gets or sets the display name of the mailbox.

address

    my $address = $mailbox->address;
    $mailbox->address($new_address);

Gets or sets the email address of the mailbox.

format

    my $string = $mailbox->format([$encoder]);

Returns the formatted mailbox string for use in a message header.

$encoder is an optional Email::MIME::RFC2047::Encoder object used for encoding display names with non-ASCII characters. If it isn't provided, a default UTF-8 encoder will be used.

AUTHOR

Nick Wellnhofer <wellnhofer@aevum.de>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.