Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms
use Mail::Mailer; use Mail::Mailer qw(mail); $mailer = new Mail::Mailer; $mailer = new Mail::Mailer $type, @args; $mailer->open(\%headers); print $mailer $body; $mailer->close;
Sends mail using any of the built-in methods. You can alter the behaviour of a method by passing $command to the new method.
$command
new
sendmail
Use the sendmail program to deliver the mail. $command is the path to sendmail.
smtp
Use the smtp protocol via Net::SMTP to deliver the mail. The server to use can be specified in @args with
@args
$mailer = new Mail::Mailer '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.
Cc
Bcc
Resent-*
Debug
Net::SMTP
qmail
Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.
testfile
Used for debugging, this displays the data on STDOUT. No mail is ever sent. $command is ignored.
Mail::Mailer will search for executables in the above order. The default mailer will be the first one found.
Mail::Mailer
new can optionally be given a $command and $type. $type is one sendmail, mail, ... given above. The meaning of $command depends on $type.
$type
mail
open is given a reference to a hash. The hash consists of key and value pairs, the key being the name of the header field (eg, To), and the value being the corresponding contents of the header field. The value can either be a scalar (eg, gnat@frii.com) or a reference to an array of scalars (eg, ['gnat@frii.com', 'Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk']).
open
To
gnat@frii.com
eg, ['gnat@frii.com', 'Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk']
Assist formatting of fields in ...::rfc822:send_headers to ensure valid in the face of newlines and longlines etc.
Secure all forms of send_headers() against hacker attack and invalid contents. Especially "\n~..." in ...::mail::send_headers.
Augments/override the build in choice for binary used to send out our mail messages.
Format:
"type1:mailbinary1;mailbinary2;...:type2:mailbinaryX;...:..."
Example: assume you want you use private sendmail binary instead of mailx, one could set PERL_MAILERS to:
PERL_MAILERS
"mail:/does/not/exists:sendmail:$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"
Mail::Send
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> Small fix and documentation by Nathan Torkington <gnat@frii.com>.
To install Mail::Cap, copy and paste the appropriate command in to your terminal.
cpanm
cpanm Mail::Cap
CPAN shell
perl -MCPAN -e shell install Mail::Cap
For more information on module installation, please visit the detailed CPAN module installation guide.