Mail::Mailer(3pm)

1Mail::Mailer(3)       User Contributed Perl Documentation      Mail::Mailer(3)
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NAME

6       Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms
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INHERITANCE

9        Mail::Mailer
10          is a IO::Handle
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SYNOPSIS

13         use Mail::Mailer;
14         use Mail::Mailer qw(mail);    # specifies default mailer
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16         $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new;
17         $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new($type, @args);
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19         $mailer->open(\%headers);
20         print $mailer $body;
21         $mailer->close
22             or die "couldn't send whole message: $!\n";
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DESCRIPTION

25       Sends mail using any of the built-in methods.  As TYPE argument to
26       new(), you can specify any of
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28       "sendmail"
29           Use the "sendmail" program to deliver the mail.
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31       "smtp"
32           Use the "smtp" protocol via Net::SMTP to deliver the mail. The
33           server to use can be specified in @args with
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35               $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('smtp', Server => $server);
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37           The smtp mailer does not handle "Cc" and "Bcc" lines, neither their
38           "Resent-*" fellows. The "Debug" options enables debugging output
39           from "Net::SMTP".
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41           You may also use the "Auth => [ $user, $password ]" option for SASL
42           authentication (requires Authen::SASL and MIME::Base64).
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44       "qmail"
45           Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.
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47       "testfile"
48           Used for debugging, this displays the data to the file named in
49           $Mail::Mailer::testfile::config{outfile} which defaults to a file
50           named "mailer.testfile".  No mail is ever sent.
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52       "Mail::Mailer" will search for executables in the above order. The
53       default mailer will be the first one found.
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METHODS

56   Constructors
57       Mail::Mailer->new(TYPE, ARGS)
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59           The TYPE is one of the back-end sender implementations, as
60           described in the DESCRIPTION chapter of this manual page.  The ARGS
61           are passed to that back-end.
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63       $obj->open(HASH)
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65           The HASH consists of key and value pairs, the key being the name of
66           the header field (eg, "To"), and the value being the corresponding
67           contents of the header field.  The value can either be a scalar
68           (eg, "gnat@frii.com") or a reference to an array of scalars ("eg,
69           ['gnat@frii.com', 'Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk']").
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DETAILS

72   ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
73       PERL_MAILERS
74           Augments/override the build in choice for binary used to send out
75           our mail messages.
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77           Format:
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79               "type1:mailbinary1;mailbinary2;...:type2:mailbinaryX;...:..."
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81           Example: assume you want you use private sendmail binary instead of
82           mailx, one could set "PERL_MAILERS" to:
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84               "mail:/does/not/exists:sendmail:$HOME/test/bin/sendmail"
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86           On systems which may include ":" in file names, use "|" as
87           separator between type-groups.
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89               "mail:c:/does/not/exists|sendmail:$HOME/test/bin/sendmail"
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91   BUGS
92       Mail::Mailer does not help with folding, and does not protect against
93       various web-script hacker attacks, for instance where a new-line is
94       inserted in the content of the field.
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AUTHORS

101       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark
102       Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further
103       development.
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105       Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>.  Mail::Field::AddrList by
106       Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>.  Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce
107       <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>.  For other contributors see ChangeLog.
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LICENSE

110       Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark
111       Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.
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113       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
114       under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
115       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html
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