package Mail::Verp; use 5.000; use strict; use Carp; use vars qw($VERSION @ENCODE_MAP @DECODE_MAP $SEPARATOR); $VERSION = '0.05'; my @chars = qw(@ : % ! - [ ]); @ENCODE_MAP = map { quotemeta($_), sprintf '%.2X', ord($_) } ('+', @chars); @DECODE_MAP = map { sprintf('%.2X', ord($_)), $_ } (@chars, '+'); sub separator { my $self = shift; if (@_){ $SEPARATOR = shift; } return $SEPARATOR; } sub new { my $self = shift; $self = bless { separator => '-', @_ }, ref($self) || $self; $self->separator($self->{separator}); return $self; } sub encode { my $self = shift; my $sender = shift; my $recipient = shift; unless ($sender){ carp "Missing sender address"; return; } unless ($recipient){ carp "Missing recipient address"; return; } my ($slocal, $sdomain) = $sender =~ m/(.+)\@([^\@]+)$/; unless ($slocal && $sdomain){ carp "Cannot parse sender address [$sender]"; return; } my ($rlocal, $rdomain) = $recipient =~ m/(.+)\@([^\@]+)$/; unless ($rlocal && $rdomain){ carp "Cannot parse recipient address [$recipient]"; return; } for (my $i = 0; $i < @ENCODE_MAP; $i += 2) { for my $t ($rlocal, $rdomain){ $t =~ s/$ENCODE_MAP[$i]/+$ENCODE_MAP[$i + 1]/g; } } return join('', $slocal, $SEPARATOR, $rlocal, '=', $rdomain, '@', $sdomain); } sub decode { my $self = shift; my $address = shift; unless ($address){ carp "Missing encoded address"; return; } if (my ($slocal, $rlocal, $rdomain, $sdomain) = $address =~ m/^(.+?)\Q${SEPARATOR}\E([^=]+)=([^\@]+)\@(.+)/){ # warn "$address $slocal $rlocal $rdomain $sdomain\n"; for (my $i = 0; $i < @DECODE_MAP; $i += 2) { for my $t ($rlocal, $rdomain){ $t =~ s/\+$DECODE_MAP[$i]/$DECODE_MAP[$i + 1]/ig; } } return (qq[$slocal\@$sdomain], qq[$rlocal\@$rdomain]) if wantarray; return qq[$rlocal\@$rdomain]; } else { return $address; } } 1; __END__ =head1 NAME Mail::Verp - encodes and decodes Variable Envelope Return Paths (VERP) addresses. =head1 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'); #Change separator back to default. $verp->separator('-'); #Decode a bounce my ($sender, $recipient) = $verp->decode($verp_email); =head1 ABSTRACT Mail::Verp encodes and decodes Variable Envelope Return Paths (VERP) email addresses. =head1 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 must also be used to decode bounce recipient addresses. =head1 FUNCTIONS =over =item new() Primarily useful to save typing. So instead of typing C you can say S<< my $x = Mail::Verp->new; >> then use C<$x> whereever C is usually required. Accepts an optional C argument for changing the separator. S<< my $x = Mail::Verp->new(separator => '+'); >> =item 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, which defaults to hyphen '-', but can be changed using the C accessor. =item 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. =back =head2 EXPORT None. =head1 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. =head1 AUTHOR Gyepi Sam Egyepi@cpan.orgE =head1 COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE Copyright 2003 by Gyepi Sam This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. =cut