NAME

Net::DNS::Mailbox - DNS mailbox representation

SYNOPSIS

use Net::DNS::Mailbox;

$mailbox = new Net::DNS::Mailbox('user@example.com');
$address = $mailbox->address;

DESCRIPTION

The Net::DNS::Mailbox module implements a subclass of DNS domain name objects representing the DNS coded form of RFC822 mailbox address.

METHODS

new

$mailbox = new Net::DNS::Mailbox('John.Doe@example.com');
$mailbox = new Net::DNS::Mailbox('John Doe <j.doe@example.com>');

Creates a mailbox object which represents the DNS domain encoded form of the mail address specified by the character string argument.

The argument string consists of printable characters from the 7-bit ASCII repertoire.

address

$address = $mailbox->address;

Returns a character string corresponding to the RFC822 form of mailbox address of the domain as described in RFC1035 section 8.

The string consists of printable characters from the 7-bit ASCII repertoire.

DOMAIN NAME COMPRESSION AND CANONICALISATION

The Net::DNS::Mailbox1035 and Net::DNS::Mailbox2535 subclass packages implement RFC1035 domain name compression and RFC2535 canonicalisation.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c)2009,2010 Dick Franks.

All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you may redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

SEE ALSO

perl, Net::DNS, Net::DNS::DomainName, RFC822, RFC1035, RFC5322