Mail::Transport::Mailx - transmit messages using external mailx program
Mail::Transport::Mailx is a Mail::Transport::Send is a Mail::Transport is a Mail::Reporter
my $sender = Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(...); $sender->send($message);
Implements mail transport using the external programs 'mailx', Mail, or 'mail'. When instantiated, the mailer will look for any of these binaries in specific system directories, and the first program found is taken.
'mailx'
Mail
'mail'
WARNING: There are many security issues with mail and mailx. DO NOT USE these commands to send messages which contains data derived from any external source!!!
Under Linux, freebsd, and bsdos the mail, Mail, and mailx names are just links to the same binary. The implementation is very primitive, pre-MIME standard, what may cause many headers to be lost. For these platforms (and probably for other platforms as well), you can better not use this transport mechanism.
mail
mailx
Mail::Transport::Mailx->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> style <autodetect> timeout L<Mail::Transport> C<120> trace L<Mail::Reporter> C<'WARNINGS'> username L<Mail::Transport> undef via L<Mail::Transport> C<'mailx'>
. executable FILENAME
. hostname HOSTNAME|ARRAY-OF-HOSTNAMES
. interval SECONDS
. log LEVEL
. password STRING
. port INTEGER
. proxy PATH
. retry NUMBER|undef
. style 'BSD'|'RFC822'
There are two version of the mail program. The newest accepts RFC822 messages, and automagically collect information about where the message is to be send to. The BSD style mail command predates MIME, and expects lines which start with a '~' (tilde) to specify destinations and such. This field is autodetect, however on some platforms both versions of mail can live (like various Linux distributions).
'~'
. timeout SECONDS
. trace LEVEL
. username STRING
. via CLASS|NAME
$obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES])
See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send
$obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS)
$obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)
$obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)
$obj->findBinary(NAME [, DIRECTORIES])
See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport
$obj->remoteHost
$obj->retry
$obj->AUTOLOAD
See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL, [LEVEL])
Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace([LEVEL, [LEVEL])
$obj->errors
$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])
Mail::Transport::Mailx->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])
$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)
Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority(LEVEL)
$obj->logSettings
$obj->notImplemented
$obj->report([LEVEL])
$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])
$obj->trace([LEVEL])
$obj->warnings
$obj->DESTROY
See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter
$obj->inGlobalDestruction
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.
Error: Sending via mailx mailer $program failed: $! ($?)
Mailx (in some shape: there are many different implementations) did start accepting messages, but did not succeed sending it.
See the Mail::Box website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/ for more details.
Module version 2.042. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.
Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
To install Mail::Box, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Mail::Box
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Mail::Box
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.