To use, simply add use Email::Address::UseXS; in your code before anything that tries to load in Email::Address. use Email::Address::UseXS; print Email::Address->parse('user@example.com'); Email::Address is dangerous, badly-formed input can cause very slow regex expressions (taking minutes or more to run). See https://cve.mitre.org/cgi-bin/cvename.cgi?name=CVE-2015-7686 for details.