Date: Mon, 11 Feb 2002 09:59:28 -0500 From: Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> To: Lord Raiden <raiden23@netzero.net> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Perl Question Message-ID: <3C67DC50.3040700@magpage.com> References: <4.2.0.58.20020211023223.009c3860@pop.netzero.net>
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Lord Raiden wrote: > I know this is kinda off topic, but at the same time it's sorta on > topic. Looking for anyone who's a Perl Guru of sorts. Got a simple > question about a perl script I'm working on. All I need this script to > do is to email someone an attachment and the associated instructions on > what to do with the attachment based on which box they check in the > submission form. I also need it to send an individual email to the > email address submitted with the form for each item checked in the > form. So if I enter "theuser@domain.com" in as the email address, then > check item1, item2, and item3, it sends off 3 separate emails, each with > their respective subjects, attachments, and instructions to the user's > email address "theuser@domain.com". > > What is the easiest way to go about doing this? The server this is > running on is FreeBSD 4.5 using Apache. Any help on this would be > greatly welcome. I can do the error checking and stuff like that > myself. My biggest stumbling point is doing the correct subject, > message, and attachments based on the selections in the submitted form > and then sending them off as individual emails. Of that list, doing the > attachments is the toughest part. Not sure how to do that. Thanks in > advance for any help or pointers. attachments are a bitch... The only time I've done something with emailing attachments I ended up using MIME::Lite. this module has a good OO interface and is fairly well documented. check it out, it's in /usr/ports/mail/p5-MIME-Lite or it's in cpan if you use that... -- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Daniel Frazier <dfrazier@magpage.com> Tel: 302-239-5900 Ext. 231 Systems Administrator Fax: 302-239-3909 MAGPAGE, We Power the Internet WWW: http://www.magpage.com/ "They that can give up essential liberty to obtain a little temporary safety deserve neither liberty nor safety." - Benjamin Franklin, Historical Review of Pennsylvania, 1759. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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