NAME

Mail::Transport::Send - send a message

CLASS INHERITANCE

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

Mail::Transport::Send is extended by 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.

• 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.

METHODS

Initiation

new OPTIONS

 OPTION               DEFAULT
 hostname             'localhost'
 interval             30
 log                  'WARNINGS'
 password             undef
 port                 undef
 proxy                undef
 retry                <false>
 timeout              120
 trace                'WARNINGS'
 username             undef
 via                  'sendmail'

hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY-OF-HOSTNAMES

See Mail::Transport::new(hostname)

interval => SECONDS

See Mail::Transport::new(interval)

log => LEVEL

See Mail::Reporter::new(log)

password => STRING

See Mail::Transport::new(password)

port => INTEGER

See Mail::Transport::new(port)

proxy => PATH

See Mail::Transport::new(proxy)

retry => NUMBER|undef

See Mail::Transport::new(retry)

timeout => SECONDS

See Mail::Transport::new(timeout)

trace => LEVEL

See Mail::Reporter::new(trace)

username => STRING

See Mail::Transport::new(username)

via => CLASS|NAME

See Mail::Transport::new(via)

Server Connection

findBinary NAME [, DIRECTORIES]

See Mail::Transport::findBinary()

remoteHost

See Mail::Transport::remoteHost()

retry

See Mail::Transport::retry()

Sending Mail

putContent MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS

Print the content of the MESSAGE to the FILEHANDLE.

 OPTION               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 printed.

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.

As OPTIONS, you can specify an interval and a retry count, which will overrule the setting at initiation of the transporter object.

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.

Logging and Tracing

defaultTrace [LEVEL, [LEVEL]

See Mail::Reporter::defaultTrace()

errors

See Mail::Reporter::errors()

log [LEVEL [,STRINGS]]

See Mail::Reporter::log()

report [LEVEL]

See Mail::Reporter::report()

reportAll [LEVEL]

See Mail::Reporter::reportAll()

trace [LEVEL]

See Mail::Reporter::trace()

warnings

See Mail::Reporter::warnings()

Other Methods

AUTOLOAD

See Mail::Reporter::AUTOLOAD()

DESTROY

See Mail::Reporter::DESTROY()

inGlobalDestruction

See Mail::Reporter::inGlobalDestruction()

logPriority LEVEL

See Mail::Reporter::logPriority()

logSettings

See Mail::Reporter::logSettings()

notImplemented

See Mail::Reporter::notImplemented()

SEE ALSO

A good start to read is Mail::Box-Overview. More documentation and a mailinglist are available from the project's website at http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/.

AUTHOR

Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net) with the help of many.

VERSION

This code is beta, version 2.023.

Copyright (c) 2001-2002 Mark Overmeer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.