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. To make this work, you have to install the
43           Authen::SASL distribution yourself: it is not automatically
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46       "smtps"
47           Use the smtp over ssl protocol via Net::SMTP::SSL to deliver the
48           mail.  Usage is identical to "smtp". You have to install
49           Authen::SASL as well.
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51            $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('smtps', Server => $server);
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53       "qmail"
54           Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.
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56       "testfile"
57           Used for debugging, this displays the data to the file named in
58           $Mail::Mailer::testfile::config{outfile} which defaults to a file
59           named "mailer.testfile".  No mail is ever sent.
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61       "Mail::Mailer" will search for executables in the above order. The
62       default mailer will be the first one found.
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METHODS

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

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

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

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