NAME
Mail::Mailer - send simple emails
INHERITANCE
Mail::Mailer
is an IO::Handle
SYNOPSIS
use
Mail::Mailer;
$mailer
= Mail::Mailer->new;
$mailer
= Mail::Mailer->new(
$type
,
@args
);
$mailer
->
open
(\
%headers
);
$mailer
$body
;
$mailer
->
close
or
die
"couldn't send whole message: $!\n"
;
DESCRIPTION
Sends mail using any of the built-in methods. As TYPE argument to new(), you can specify any of
sendmail
-
Use the
sendmail
program to deliver the mail. smtp
-
Use the
smtp
protocol via Net::SMTP to deliver the mail. The server to use can be specified in@args
with$mailer
= Mail::Mailer->new(
'smtp'
,
Server
=>
$server
);
The smtp mailer does not handle
Cc
andBcc
lines, neither theirResent-*
fellows. TheDebug
options enables debugging output fromNet::SMTP
.[added 2.21] You may also use the
StartTLS => 1
options to upgrade the connection with STARTTLS. The same for optionSSL => 1
.You may also use the
Auth => [ $user, $password ]
option for SASL authentication. To make this work, you have to install the Authen::SASL distribution yourself: it is not automatically installed. smtps
-
This option is deprecated when you have
libnet
1.28 (2014) and above.Use the smtp over ssl protocol via Net::SMTP::SSL to deliver the mail. Usage is identical to
smtp
. You have to install Authen::SASL as well.$mailer
= Mail::Mailer->new(
'smtps'
,
Server
=>
$server
);
qmail
-
Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.
testfile
-
Used for debugging, this displays the data to the file named in
$Mail::Mailer::testfile::config{outfile}
which defaults to a file namedmailer.testfile
. No mail is ever sent.
Mail::Mailer
will search for executables in the above order. The default mailer will be the first one found.
METHODS
Constructors
- Mail::Mailer->new($type, %options)
-
The $type is one of the back-end sender implementations, as described in the DESCRIPTION chapter of this manual page. The %options are passed to that back-end.
- $obj->open(HASH)
-
The HASH consists of key and value pairs, the key being the name of the header field (eg,
To
), and the value being the corresponding contents of the header field. The value can either be a scalar (eg,gnat@frii.com
) or a reference to an array of scalars (eg, ['gnat@frii.com', 'Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk']
).
DETAILS
ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
- PERL_MAILERS
-
Augments/override the build in choice for binary used to send out our mail messages.
Format:
"type1:mailbinary1;mailbinary2;...:type2:mailbinaryX;...:..."
Example: assume you want you use private sendmail binary instead of mailx, one could set
PERL_MAILERS
to:"mail:/does/not/exists:sendmail:$HOME/test/bin/sendmail"
On systems which may include
:
in file names, use|
as separator between type-groups."mail:c:/does/not/exists|sendmail:$HOME/test/bin/sendmail"
BUGS
Mail::Mailer does not help with folding, and does not protect against various web-script hacker attacks, for instance where a new-line is inserted in the content of the field.
SEE ALSO
This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.
AUTHORS
The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.
Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
LICENSE
Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2024 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.
This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html