Bug #72295 for MIME-Lite: Inconsistency in MIME::Lite with/without Mail::Address

From: "Lenga, Yair " Hi, I've been using MIME::Lite for many year to send messages to our users. Many thanks for your effort. Recently, I've noticed that I'm getting error message when users attempt to register them self, and mistype their email address. If the user type in something like (a@@b.com), MIME::Lite behavior depends on if Mail::Address is install. When Mail::Address is installed, I believe that MIME::Lite uses it to parse the To parameter. If there are bad email, they will be simply ignored by Mail::Address parse method, message is still sent to other valid recipients. When Mail::Address is not installed, MIME::Lite uses a "lite" version for extracting mail address. Unlike Mail::Address, if unrecognized email address is found, the code will 'die "can't extract address". In this case, nothing is delivered to other remaining valid email addresses. My suggestion - It is possible to make the behavior consistent: - Have a default behavior (either ignore, or die on bad email address). - Add an option (similar to 'SkipBad' option for Net::SMTP) that will allow the behavior to be configured. - Possibly add method to return list of email addresses that will be ignored Let me know what you think. I believe those changes will make MIME::Lite more reliable for production jobs. In my case, it will reduce the need to scan log file, and arrange for resend of selected messages after manually editing the recipients lists. Thanks again, Yair Lenga