Address Object

The Address object is an interface to reading email addresses passed in at SMTP time. As such it parses all the formats in RFC-2821 and 2822, and supports correctly escaping email addresses.

API

• new Address (user, host)

Create a new address object for user@host

• new Address (email)

Creates a new address object by parsing the email address. Will throw an exception if the address cannot be parsed.

• address.user

Access the local part of the email address

• address.host

Access the domain part of the email adress

• address.format()

Provides the email address in the appropriate <user@host> format. And deals correctly with the null sender and local names.

• address.toString()

Same as format().

• address.address()

Provides the email address in 'user@host' format.

Advanced Usage

It is possible to mess with the regular expressions used to match addresses for stricter or less strict matching.

To change the behaviour mess with the following variables:

var adr = require('./address');
// Now change one of the following. Note they are RegExp objects NOT strings.
adr.atom_expr;
adr.address_literal_expr;
adr.subdomain_expr;
adr.domain_expr;
adr.qtext_expr;
adr.text_expr;
// Don't forget to recompile:
adr.compile_re();