Mail::Send

Section: User Contributed Perl Documentation (3)
Updated: 2002-03-23
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NAME

Mail::Send - Simple electronic mail interface

SYNOPSIS

    require Mail::Send;

    $msg = new Mail::Send;

    $msg = new Mail::Send Subject=>'example subject', To=>'timbo';

    $msg->to('user@host');
    $msg->subject('example subject');
    $msg->cc('user@host');
    $msg->bcc('someone@else');

    $msg->set($header, @values);
    $msg->add($header, @values);
    $msg->delete($header);

    # Launch mailer and set headers. The filehandle returned
    # by open() is an instance of the Mail::Mailer class.
    # Arguments to the open() method are passed to the Mail::Mailer
    # constructor.

    $fh = $msg->open;

    print $fh "Body of message";

    $fh->close;         # complete the message and send it

    $fh->cancel;        # not yet implemented

DESCRIPTION

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>