---
name: "Mail::AuthenticationResults"
section: "3pm"
platform: "linux"
package: "perl-mail-authenticationresults"
version: "2.20260216-1"
release: "Arch Linux 2026-11-01"
platforms: ["linux"]
url: "https://new.carta.tech/Mail::AuthenticationResults"
---

# Mail::AuthenticationResults(3pm)

Object Oriented Authentication-Results Headers

## NAME

Mail::AuthenticationResults - Object Oriented Authentication-Results Headers

## VERSION

version 2.20260216

## DESCRIPTION

Object Oriented Authentication-Results email headers.

This parser copes with most styles of Authentication-Results header seen in the wild, but is not yet fully RFC7601 compliant

Differences from RFC7601

key/value pairs are parsed when present in the authserv-id section, this is against RFC but has been seen in headers added by Yahoo!.

Comments added between key/value pairs will be added after them in the data structures and when stringified.

## METHODS

### new()

Return a new Mail::AuthenticationResults object

### parser()

Returns a new Mail::AuthenticationResults::Parser object for the supplied `$auth_results` header

## BUGS

Please report bugs via the github tracker.

https://github.com/marcbradshaw/Mail-AuthenticationResults/issues

## AUTHOR

Marc Bradshaw \<marc@marcbradshaw.net\>

## COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

This software is copyright (c) 2021 by Marc Bradshaw.

This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5 programming language system itself.