Mail::Mailer(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Mail::Mailer(3)
NAME
Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms
INHERITANCE
Mail::Mailer
is a IO::Handle
SYNOPSIS
use Mail::Mailer;
use Mail::Mailer qw(mail); # specifies default mailer
$mailer = Mail::Mailer->new;
$mailer = Mail::Mailer->new($type, @args);
$mailer->open(\%headers);
print $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" and "Bcc" lines, neither their
"Resent-*" fellows. The "Debug" options enables debugging output
from "Net::SMTP".
You may also use the "Auth => [ $user, $password ]" option for SASL
authentication (requires Authen::SASL and MIME::Base64).
"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
named "mailer.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, ARGS)
The TYPE is one of the back-end sender implementations, as
described in the DESCRIPTION chapter of this manual page. The ARGS
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 2001-2007 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
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