Email::Handle - A Objective Email Handler

  use Email::Handle;

  my $email = Email::Handle->new('root@example.com');
  print $email->is_valid ? 'yes' : 'no';
  print $email->obfuscate;
  print $email->anonymize;
  print $email;
  $email->send(From => 'foo@example.com');

This module is also convenient for using on the DB application with Template and Class::DBI / DBIx::Class.

  # setup the table that has column of email with this module
  my $loader = Class::DBI::Loader->new(
     ...
     namespace => 'MyApp'
  );
  $loader->find_class('user')->has_a(email => 'Email::Handle');

  # then output records with TT2
  my $tmpl = Template->new;
  $tmpl->process(
      'sample.tt',
      { users => $loader->find_class('user')->retrieve_all }
  );

  # You can write the template with some methods of this module like this
  [% WHILE (user IN users) %]
  [% user.email.obfuscate IF user.email.is_valid %]
  [% END %]

This module allows you to handle an email address as a object.

Returns Email::Handle object. It has three forms of construction.

  my $email = Email::Handle->new('root@example.com');

or

  my $email = Email::Handle->new(
     user => 'root',
     host => 'example.com'
  );

or

  my $email = Email::Handle->new;
  $email->user('root');
  $email->host('example.com');

Set/get an email address. A passed string will be splited and setted as user and host internally.

Returns a Email::Handle object to a plain string. Email::Handle objects are also converted to plain strings automatically by overloading. This means that objects can be used as plain strings in most Perl constructs.

  my $email = Email::Handle->new('root@example.com');
  print $email->as_string; # 'root@example.com'
  print $email;            # 'root@example.com'

Set/get a user name for an email address.

  $email->user;        # 'root'
  $email->user('foo'); # changing the user from 'root' to 'foo'

Set/get a host name for an email address.

  $email->host;             # 'examplle.com'
  $email->host('cpan.org'); # changing the host from 'example.com' to 'cpan.org'

Validates whether an address is well-formed with Email::Valid/Email::Valid::Loose and returns false if the address is not valid. This method takes some options as arguments.

  $email->is_valid;             # validating with Email::Valid
  $email->is_valid(loose => 1); # validating with Email::Valid::Loose

  # Any other arguments will be passed to the validator.
  $email->is_valid(-mxcheck => 1);

Returns obfuscated HTML email addresses which is hard to be scraped. It requires HTML::Email::Obfuscate.

  $email->obfuscate;

This code generates obfuscated strings like this:

  ro&#x6F;<span>t</span><!-- @ -->&#64;h&#x61;t<span>e</span>na<B>&#46;</b>n&#x65;<B>&#46;</b><span>j</span>&#x70;

Arguments will be passed to the constructor of the HTML::Email::Obfuscate.

  $email->obfuscate(javascript => 1);
  $email->obfuscate(lite => 1);

Returns an anonymized email address like this:

  $email->anonymize;        # 'root@e...'
  $email->anonymize('***'); # 'root@e***'

Returns MIME::Lite message object for sending mail to the address. Arguments will be passed to the constructor of MIME::Lite;

  $email->mime(
      From => 'me@myhost.com', 
      Subject => 'Hello'
  )->send;

If you want to use any other MIME classes like MIME::Lite::TT rather than MIME::Lite, override package variable $Email::Handle::MIME_CLASS

  $Email::Handle::MIME_CLASS = 'MIME::Lite::TT';
  my $msg = $email->mime(...)

A shortcut method for sending mail with MIME::Lite.

  $email->send(From => 'me@myhost.com', Subject => 'Hello');

Naoya Ito, <naoya at bloghackers.net>

Please report any bugs or feature requests to bug-email-handle at rt.cpan.org, or through the web interface at http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/ReportBug.html?Queue=Email-Handle. I will be notified, and then you'll automatically be notified of progress on your bug as I make changes.

You can find documentation for this module with the perldoc command.

    perldoc Email::Handle

You can also look for information at:

* AnnoCPAN: Annotated CPAN documentation

http://annocpan.org/dist/Email-Handle

* CPAN Ratings

http://cpanratings.perl.org/d/Email-Handle

* RT: CPAN's request tracker

http://rt.cpan.org/NoAuth/Bugs.html?Dist=Email-Handle

* Search CPAN

http://search.cpan.org/dist/Email-Handle

Copyright 2006 Naoya Ito, all rights reserved.

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