Date: Sun, 06 May 2007 12:29:43 -0700 From: Garrett Cooper <youshi10@u.washington.edu> To: Jeffrey Goldberg <jeffrey@goldmark.org> Cc: Olivier Regnier <oregnier@oregnier.net>, freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: sending email with perl Message-ID: <463E2CA7.5040009@u.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <BC0926BC-4135-4492-B496-17C13F735E14@goldmark.org> References: <463DF8B5.5000906@oregnier.net> <BC0926BC-4135-4492-B496-17C13F735E14@goldmark.org>
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Jeffrey Goldberg wrote:
> On May 6, 2007, at 10:48 AM, Olivier Regnier wrote:
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> I written a small script in perl to send email.
>>
>> Here is the code:
>>
>> #!/usr/bin/perl -w
>> use strict;
>> use warnings;
>> use MIME::Lite;
>>
>> my $msg = new MIME::Lite
>> From =>'me@domain.tld',
>> To =>'me@domain.tld',
>> Subject =>'test',
>> Type =>'TEXT',
>> Data =>'Hello this is a test';
>> $msg -> send;
>>
>> I have a .mailrc file :
>> set sendmail="/root/scripts/nbsmtp.sh"
>
> Perl isn't going to know or care about what is in your .mailrc file.
>
> You should replace
>
> $msg -> send
>
> with something like
>
> $msg -> send || die "Could not send: $!"
>
> to at least get some idea of where the send attempt is failing
>
>
>> I installed a small mta nbsmtp and i use a shell script called
>> nbsmtp.sh with this line :
>> /usr/local/bin/nbsmtp -f me@domain.tld -h ssl0.ovh.net -d elipse -p
>> 465 -U postmaster@domain.tld -P password -M l -s -V
>
> I don't know anything about nbsmtp, but if it sets up an SMTP daemon on
> localhost then you can use the perl module Mail:Mailer to set up the
> mailer with something like
>
> $mailer = new Mail::Mailer 'smtp', Server => 'localhost' ;
>
> -j
An even easier way is to use /usr/bin/mail from Perl, similar to the
following:
system("/usr/bin/mail -s 'Subject line' recipient@foo.com <
Email_Contents_In_A_File");
That way you don't have to sent anything up for Perl specifically every
script, and your .mailrc settings are there to be used (at your
discretion -- I believe you can turn them off :)..).
The only thing this doesn't do is attachments, but I think that requires
a bit more work...
Cheers,
-Garrett
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