www.fifi.org
    Documentation
        Manpages
        GNU Info
        Debian document tree
        Whole document tree
    Trigance web page
    Public services
    User info
    Mailing lists
    Secure server
    Multilingual usage

Manpages

Manpage of Mail::Mailer

Mail::Mailer

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2003-09-19
Index
Return to Main Contents

NAME

Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms

SYNOPSIS

    use Mail::Mailer;
    use Mail::Mailer qw(mail);

    $mailer = new Mail::Mailer;

    $mailer = new Mail::Mailer $type, @args;

    $mailer->open(\%headers);

    print $mailer $body;

    $mailer->close;

DESCRIPTION

Sends mail using any of the built-in methods. You can alter the behaviour of a method by passing $command to the "new" method.

mail

Use the Unix system "mail" program to deliver the mail. $command is the path to "mail". Mail::Mailer will search for "mailx", "Mail" and "mail" (in this order).

sendmail

Use the "sendmail" program to deliver the mail. $command is the path to "sendmail".

qmail

Use qmail's qmail-inject 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 = new Mail::Mailer '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".

qmail

Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.

test

Used for debugging, this calls "/bin/echo" to display the data. No mail is ever sent. $command is ignored.

"Mail::Mailer" will search for executables in the above order. The default mailer will be the first one found.

ARGUMENTS

"new" can optionally be given a $command and $type. $type is one "sendmail", "mail", ... given above. The meaning of $command depends on $type.

"open" is given a reference to a 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']").

TO DO

Assist formatting of fields in ...::rfc822:send_headers to ensure valid in the face of newlines and longlines etc.

Secure all forms of send_headers() against hacker attack and invalid contents. Especially ``\n~...'' in ...::mail::send_headers.

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"

AUTHORS

Maintained by Mark Overmeer <mailtools@overmeer.net>

Original code written by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>, with a kick start from Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>. With contributions by Gerard Hickey <hickey@ctron.com> Small fix and documentation by Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>.

This document was created by man2html, using the manual pages.
Time: 20:19:37 GMT, April 26, 2024