NAME

Log::Handler::Output::Email - Log messages as email (via Net::SMTP).

SYNOPSIS

    use Log::Handler::Output::Email;

    my $email = Log::Handler::Output::Email->new(
        host     => 'mx.bar.example',
        hello    => 'EHLO my.domain.example',
        timeout  => 120,
        debug    => 0,
        from     => 'bar@foo.example',
        to       => 'foo@bar.example',
        subject  => 'your subject',
        buffer   => 100,
        interval => 60,
    );

    $email->log($message);

DESCRIPTION

With this output module it's possible to log messages via email and it used Net::SMTP to do it.

Net::SMTP is from Graham Barr and it does it's job very well.

METHODS

new()

Call new() to create a new Log::Handler::Output::Email object.

The following options are possible:

host

With this option you has to define the SMTP host to connect to.

    host => 'mx.host.com'

    # or

    host => [ 'mx.host.example', 'mx.host-backup.example' ]

hello

Identify yourself with a HELO. The default is set to EHLO BELO.

timeout

With this option you can set the maximum time in seconds to wait for a response from the SMTP server. The default is set to 120 seconds.

from

The sender address (MAIL FROM).

to

The receipient address (RCPT TO).

subject

The subject of the mail.

If no subject is set then the first 100 character of the message is used.

buffer and interval

Both options exists only for security. The thing is that it would be very bad if something wents wrong in your program and hundreds of mails would be send. For this reason you can set a buffer and a interval to take care.

With the buffer you can set the maximum size of the buffer in lines. If you set

    buffer => 10

then 10 messages would be buffered.

With the interval you can set the interval in seconds to flush the buffer. flush means to send the complete buffer as one email.

Note that if the buffer is full and the interval is not expired then all further lines get lost - as a matter of course - because we don't want to blow our memory away. To flush the buffer every time if it's full you can set the interval to 0.

debug

With this option it's possible to enable debugging. The informations can be intercepted with $SIG{__WARN__}.

log()

Call log() if you want to log a message as email.

Example:

    $email->log('this message will be mailed');

flush()

Call flush() if you want to flush the buffered lines.

sendmail()

Call sendmail() if you want to send an email.

errstr()

This function returns the last error message.

DESTROY

DESTROY is defined and called flush().

PREREQUISITES

    Carp
    Net::SMTP
    Params::Validate

EXPORTS

No exports.

REPORT BUGS

Please report all bugs to <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>.

AUTHOR

Jonny Schulz <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>.

QUESTIONS

Do you have any questions or ideas?

MAIL: <jschulz.cpan(at)bloonix.de>

If you send me a mail then add Log::Handler into the subject.

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (C) 2007 by Jonny Schulz. All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.

cpanm Log::Handler

perl -MCPAN -e shell
install Log::Handler