Manpages - Mail_Send.3pm

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SYNOPSIS
DESCRIPTION
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SEE ALSO
AUTHORS
LICENSE

NAME

Mail::Send - Simple electronic mail interface

SYNOPSIS

require Mail::Send; $msg = Mail::Send->new; $msg = Mail::Send->new(Subject => example, To => timbo); $msg->to(user@host); $msg->to(user@host, user2@example.com); $msg->subject(example subject); $msg->cc(user@host); $msg->bcc(someone@else); $msg->set($header, @values); $msg->add($header, @values); $msg->delete($header); # Launch mailer and set headers. The filehandle returned # by open() is an instance of the Mail::Mailer class. # Arguments to the open() method are passed to the Mail::Mailer # constructor. $fh = $msg->open; # some default mailer $fh = $msg->open(sendmail); # explicit print $fh “Body of message”; $fh->close # complete the message and send it or die “couldnt send whole message: $!\n”;

DESCRIPTION

Mail::Send creates e-mail messages without using the Mail::Header knowledge, which means that all escaping and folding must be done by you! Also: do not forget to escape leading dots. Simplicity has its price.

When you have time, take a look at Mail::Transport which is part of the MailBox suite.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Send->new(PAIRS): A list of header fields (provided as key-value PAIRS) can be used to initialize the object, limited to the few provided as method: to, subject, cc, and bcc. For other header fields, use add().

Header fields

$obj->add($fieldname, @values): Add values to the list of defined values for the $fieldname.
$obj->bcc(@values)
$obj->cc(@values)
$obj->delete($fieldname)
$obj->set($fieldname, @values)

The @values will replace the old values for the $fieldname. Returned is the LIST of values after modification.

$obj->subject(@values)
$obj->to(@values)

Sending

$obj->open(%options): The %options are used to initiate a mailer object via Mail::Mailer::new(). Then Mail::Mailer::open() is called with the knowledge collected in this Mail::Send object. Be warned: this module implements raw smtp, which means that you have to escape lines which start with a dot, by adding one in front.

AUTHORS

The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.

Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

LICENSE

Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2017 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html