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 <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT
    Copyright (c) 1995-8 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.