Mail::Transport::Send - send a message

DIAGNOSTICS
REFERENCES
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NAME

Mail::Transport::Send - send a message

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Transport::Send
   is a Mail::Transport
   is a Mail::Reporter

 Mail::Transport::Send is extended by
   Mail::Transport::Exim
   Mail::Transport::Mailx
   Mail::Transport::Qmail
   Mail::Transport::SMTP
   Mail::Transport::Sendmail

SYNOPSIS

 my $message = Mail::Message->new(...);

 # Some extensions implement sending:
 $message->send;
 $message->send(via => 'sendmail');

 my $sender = Mail::Transport::SMTP->new(...);
 $sender->send($message);

DESCRIPTION

Send a message to the destinations as specified in the header. The Mail::Transport::Send module is capable of autodetecting which of the following modules work on your system; you may simply call send without via options to get a message transported.

Mail::Transport::Sendmail
Use sendmail to process and deliver the mail. This requires the sendmail program to be installed on your system. Whether this is an original sendmail, or a replacement from Postfix does matter.
Mail::Transport::Exim
Use exim to distribute the message.
Mail::Transport::Qmail
Use qmail-inject to distribute the message.
Mail::Transport::SMTP
In this case, Perl is handling mail transport on its own. This is less desired but more portable than sending with sendmail or qmail. The advantage is that this sender is environment independent, and easier to configure. However, there is no daemon involved which means that your program will wait until the message is delivered, and the message is lost when your program is interrupted during delivery (which may take hours to complete).
Mail::Transport::Mailx
Use the external mail, mailx, or Mail programs to send the message. Usually, the result is poor, because some versions of these programs do not support MIME headers. Besides, these programs are known to have exploitable security breaches.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Transport::Send->new(OPTIONS)

 Option      Defined in       Default       
 executable  L<Mail::Transport>  C<undef>      
 hostname    L<Mail::Transport>  C<'localhost'>
 interval    L<Mail::Transport>  C<30>         
 log         L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'> 
 password    L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 port        L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 proxy       L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 retry       L<Mail::Transport>  <false>       
 timeout     L<Mail::Transport>  C<120>        
 trace       L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'> 
 username    L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 via         L<Mail::Transport>  C<'sendmail'>

. executable FILENAME

. hostname HOSTNAME|ARRAY-OF-HOSTNAMES

. interval SECONDS

. log LEVEL

. password STRING

. port INTEGER

. proxy PATH

. retry NUMBER|undef

. timeout SECONDS

. trace LEVEL

. username STRING

. via CLASS|NAME

Sending mail

$obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES])

Determine the destination for this message. If a valid ADDRESS is defined, this is used to overrule the addresses within the message. If the ADDRESS is undef it is ignored.

If no ADDRESS is specified, the message is scanned for resent groups (see Mail::Message::Head::Complete::resentGroups()). The addresses found in the first (is latest added) group are used. If no resent groups are found, the normal To, Cc, and Bcc lines are taken.

$obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS)

Print the content of the MESSAGE to the FILEHANDLE.

 Option       Defined in       Default
 body_only                     <false>
 undisclosed                   <false>

. body_only BOOLEAN

Print only the body of the message, not the whole.

. undisclosed BOOLEAN

Do not print the Bcc and Resent-Bcc lines. Default false, which means that they are not printed.

$obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

Transmit the MESSAGE, which may be anything what can be coerced into a Mail::Message, so including Mail::Internet and MIME::Entity messages. It returns true when the transmission was successfully completed.

 Option    Defined in       Default                                   
 interval                   L<new(interval)|Mail::Transport/"METHODS">
 retry                      L<new(retry)|Mail::Transport/"METHODS">   
 to                         C<undef>

. interval SECONDS

. retry INTEGER

. to STRING

Overrules the destination(s) of the message, which is by default taken from the (Resent-)To, (Resent-)Cc, and (Resent-)Bcc.

$obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

Try to send the message. This will return true if successful, and false in case some problems where detected. The $? contains the exit status of the command which was started.

Server connection

$obj->findBinary(NAME [, DIRECTORIES])

See Server connection in the Mail::Transport manpage

$obj->remoteHost

See Server connection in the Mail::Transport manpage

$obj->retry

See Server connection in the Mail::Transport manpage

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Transport::Send->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->errors

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Transport::Send->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Transport::Send->logPriority(LEVEL)

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->logSettings

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->notImplemented

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->report([LEVEL])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->warnings

See Error handling in the Mail::Reporter manpage

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY

See Cleanup in the Mail::Reporter manpage

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See Cleanup in the Mail::Reporter manpage

DIAGNOSTICS

Warning: Message has no destination

It was not possible to figure-out where the message is intended to go to.

Error: Package $package does not implement $method.

Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

Warning: Resent group does not specify a destination

The message which is sent is the result of a bounce (for instance created with Mail::Message::bounce()), and therefore starts with a Received header field. With the bounce, the new destination(s) of the message are given, which should be included as Resent-To, Resent-Cc, and Resent-Bcc.

The To, Cc, and Bcc header information is only used if no Received was found. That seems to be the best explanation of the RFC.

As alternative, you may also specify the to option to some of the senders (for instance Mail::Transport::SMTP::send(to) to overrule any information found in the message itself about the destination.

Error: Transporters of type $class cannot send.

The Mail::Transport object of the specified type can not send messages, but only receive message.

REFERENCES

See the MailBox website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.

COPYRIGHTS

Distribution version 2.059. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net) See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Mail::Transport::Send - send a message