Email

email

The email function parses emails and allows you to access their components.

 output = input.email()

Convert existing objects into email objects

This function operates on strings

 {"input": "andi.miller@datasift.com"}
 {"output": "andi.miller@datasift.com"}

 {"input": "invalidemailaddress"}
 {}

access parts of email addresses

There are accessors to get the name out of an rfc822 email

 output = input.email().name
 {"input": "Andi Miller <andi.miller@datasift.com>"}
 {"output": "Andi Miller"}

There are accessors to get the email address out of an rfc822 email

 output = input.email().address
 {"input": "Andi Miller <andi.miller@datasift.com>"}
 {"output": "andi.miller@datasift.com"}

There are accessors to get the username out of an rfc822 email

 output = input.email().username
 {"input": "Andi Miller <andi.miller@datasift.com>"}
 {"output": "andi.miller"}

There are accessors to get the domain out of an rfc822 email

 output = input.email().domain
 {"input": "Andi Miller <andi.miller@datasift.com>"}
 {"output": "datasift.com"}

badly formatted emails should be discarded

 output = input.email()

Triangle brackets with no name.

 {"input": "<@>"}
 {}

Keyboard mashing

 {"input": "kjlas;d12£!$£@%£$"}
 {}

No domain

 {"input": "a <a@>"}
 {}

No username

 {"input": "a <@a>"}
 {}

Possibly erroneous bad emails

Content after closing brace is discarded

 {"input": "a <a@a> a"}
 {"output": "a <a@a>"}