from address with display name

[mikel]

from address with display name

[mikel]

calling m[:from] will return the underlying object.

m = Mail.new("Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]>")
from = m[:from]
from.formatted 
#=> ["Mikel Lindsaar <[email protected]>"]

HTH

Mikel

[kbaum]

That works. Is there any convenient way to just get the display name though? It seems like the Mail::Address class has what I need but I'm not sure the proper way to use it.

Thanks for your help.

thx.

[mikel]

There was, but it got lost somewhere along the way :)

I just added that back in on trunk Mail. But be warned on trunk mail, it is 2.0 and has a lot of changes in Network delivery etc.

You can update to latest trunk Mail, and it will give you:

from.addrs          #=> [<#Mail::Address..>, <#Mail::Address...>]
from.display_names  #=> ['Mikel Lindsaar', 'Bob Smith']

Or if you dont want to upgrade, you could possibly do:

from.send(:tree).addresses.first.display_name

But that is an unsupported HACK :)

Mikel

[kbaum]

Cool. I am only using mail to parse emails that are already downloaded so i think i should be ok.

Unrelated question. Is mail intended to support imap eventually?

Thanks for your help!

-karl

[mikel]

Re IMAP, sure.. just needs to be written and a good DSL worked out :)

Mikel