Mail::Address(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Address(3)

```
 foreach $addr (@addrs) {
     print $addr->format,"\n";
 }
```

"Mail::Address" extracts and manipulates email addresses from a message header. It cannot be used to extract addresses from some random text. You can use this module to create RFC822 compliant fields.

Although "Mail::Address" is a very popular subject for books, and is used in many applications, it does a very poor job on the more complex message fields. It does only handle simple address formats (which covers about 95% of what can be found). Problems are with

- no support for address groups, even not with the semi-colon as separator between addresses;
- limited support for escapes in phrases and comments. There are cases where it can get wrong; and
- you have to take care of most escaping when you create an address yourself: "Mail::Address" does not do that for you.

Often requests are made to the maintainers of this code improve this situation, but this is not a good idea, where it will break zillions of existing applications. If you wish for a fully RFC2822 compliant implementation you may take a look at Mail::Message::Field::Full, part of MailBox.

```
  my @g = $s->groups;          # all groups, at least one
  # ref $g[0] isa Mail::Message::Field::AddrGroup;
  my $ga = $g[0]->addresses;   # group addresses
  my @a = $s->addresses;       # all addresses
  # ref $a[0] isa Mail::Message::Field::Address;
```

=c\_method new $phrase, $address, \[ $comment ] 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)
```

**Note:** This function tries to be smart with the "phrase" of the email address, which is probably a very bad idea. Consider to use **phrase()** itself.

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Document: Mail::Address(3pm) from perl-mailtools 2.22-r4 (Chainguard OS)
Source: https://github.com/markov2/perl5-MailTools