Verp(3pm)						User Contributed Perl Documentation						 Verp(3pm)

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);

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.

perl v5.10.0							    2008-05-26								 Verp(3pm)