Mail::Verp - encodes and decodes Variable Envelope Return Paths addresses.

NAME

Mail::Verp - encodes and decodes Variable Envelope Return Paths (VERP) addresses.

SYNOPSIS

  use Mail::Verp;


  #Using class methods
  #Change separator to something else
  Mail::Verp->separator('+');
  #Create a VERP envelope sender of an email to recipient@example.net.
  my $verp_email = Mail::Verp->encode('sender@example.com', 'recipient@example.net');
  #If a bounce comes back, decode $verp_email to figure out
  #the original recipient of the bounced mail.
  my ($sender, $recipient) = Mail::Verp->decode($verp_email);


  #Using instance methods
  my $verp = Mail::Verp->new(separator => '+');
  #Create a VERP envelope sender of an email to recipient@example.net.
  my $verp_email = $verp->encode('sender@example.com', 'recipient@example.net');
  #Decode a bounce
  my ($sender, $recipient) = $verp->decode($verp_email);


=head1 ABSTRACT

Mail::Verp encodes and decodes Variable Envelope Return Paths (VERP) email addresses.

DESCRIPTION

Mail::Verp encodes the address of an email recipient into the envelope sender address so that a bounce can be more easily handled even if the original recipient is forwarding their mail to another address and the remote Mail Transport Agents send back unhelpful bounce messages. The module can also be used to decode bounce recipient addresses.

FUNCTIONS

new()
Primarily useful to save typing. So instead of typing Mail::Verp you can say my $x = Mail::Verp-new; >> then use $x whereever Mail::Verp is usually required.

Accepts an optional separator argument for changing the separator, which defaults to hyphen '-'. The value can also be changed using the separator accessor.

my $x = Mail::Verp-new(separator => '+'); >>

encode(LOCAL-ADDRESS, REMOTE-ADDRESS)
Encodes LOCAL-ADDRESS, REMOTE-ADDRESS into a verped address suitable for use as an envelope return address. It may also be useful to use the same address in Errors-To and Reply-To headers to compensate for broken Mail Transport Agents.

Uses current separator value.

decode(VERPED-ADDRESS)
Decodes VERPED-ADDRESS into its constituent parts. Returns LOCAL-ADDRESS and REMOTE-ADDRESS in list context, REMOTE-ADDRESS in scalar context. Returns VERPED-ADDRESS if the decoding fails.

Uses current separator value.

separator
Returns current value of the VERP separator

separator(SEPARATOR)
Sets new value for VERP separator and returns the previous value.

EXPORT

None.

SEE ALSO

DJ Bernstein details verps here: http://cr.yp.to/proto/verp.txt.

Sam Varshavchik proposes an encoding here: http://www.courier-mta.org/draft-varshavchik-verp-smtpext.txt.

AUTHOR

Gyepi Sam <gyepi@cpan.org>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2007 by Gyepi Sam

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

 Mail::Verp - encodes and decodes Variable Envelope Return Paths addresses.