:mod:`VirtualMailManager.EmailAddress` --- Handling of e-mail addresses

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.. module:: VirtualMailManager.EmailAddress

  :synopsis: Handling of e-mail addresses

.. moduleauthor:: Pascal Volk <neverseen@users.sourceforge.net>

.. toctree::

   :maxdepth: 2

This module provides the :class:`EmailAddress` class to handle validated e-mail

addresses.

EmailAddress

------------

.. class:: EmailAddress(address)

  Creates a new EmailAddress instance.

  :param address: string representation of an e-mail addresses

  :type address: :obj:`basestring`

  :raise VirtualMailManager.Exceptions.VMMEmailAddressException: if the

    *address* is syntactically wrong.

  :raise VirtualMailManager.Exceptions.VMMException: if the validation of the

    local-part or domain name fails.

  An EmailAddress instance has the both read-only attributes:

  .. attribute:: localpart

    The local-part of the address *local-part@domain*

  .. attribute:: domainname

    The domain part of the address *local-part@domain*

Examples

--------

  >>> from VirtualMailManager.EmailAddress import EmailAddress

  >>> john = EmailAddress('john.doe@example.com')

  >>> john.localpart

  'john.doe'

  >>> john.domainname

  'example.com'

  >>> jane = EmailAddress('jane.doe@example.com')

  >>> jane != john

  True

  >>> EmailAddress('info@xn--pypal-4ve.tld') == EmailAddress(u'info@pаypal.tld')

  True

  >>> jane

  EmailAddress('jane.doe@example.com')

  >>> print john

  john.doe@example.com

  >>>