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".
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50            $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('smtps', Server => $server);
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52       "qmail"
53           Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.
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55       "testfile"
56           Used for debugging, this displays the data to the file named in
57           $Mail::Mailer::testfile::config{outfile} which defaults to a file
58           named "mailer.testfile".  No mail is ever sent.
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60       "Mail::Mailer" will search for executables in the above order. The
61       default mailer will be the first one found.
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METHODS

64   Constructors
65       Mail::Mailer->new(TYPE, ARGS)
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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)
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73           The HASH consists of key and value pairs, the key being the name of
74           the header field (eg, "To"), and the value being the corresponding
75           contents of the header field.  The value can either be a scalar
76           (eg, "gnat@frii.com") or a reference to an array of scalars ("eg,
77           ['gnat@frii.com', 'Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk']").
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DETAILS

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

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

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