NAME

Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms

INHERITANCE

 Mail::Mailer
   is a IO::Handle

SYNOPSIS

  use Mail::Mailer;
  use Mail::Mailer qw(mail);    # specifies default mailer

  $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new;
  $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new($type, @args);

  $mailer->open(\%headers);
  print $mailer $body;
  $mailer->close;

DESCRIPTION

Sends mail using any of the built-in methods. As TYPE argument to new(), you can specify any of

sendmail

Use the sendmail 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 = Mail::Mailer->new('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.

You may also use the Auth => [ $user, $password ] option for SASL authentication (requires the Authen::SASL manpage and the MIME::Base64 manpage).

qmail

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

testfile

Used for debugging, this displays the data to the file named in $Mail::Mailer::testfile::config{outfile} which defaults to a file named mailer.testfile. No mail is ever sent.

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

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Mailer->new(TYPE, ARGS)

The TYPE is one of the back-end sender implementations, as described in the DESCRIPTION chapter of this manual page. The ARGS are passed to that back-end.

$obj->open(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']).

DETAILS

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"

BUGS

Mail::Mailer does not help with folding, and does not protect against various web-script hacker attacks, for instance where a new-line is inserted in the content of the field.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without development.

Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms