roBofh — Fri, 22 Dec 2000 03:26:17 +0000

Web-based e-mail is usually either run locally or through IMAP.

On Mail::Mailer, try to find an example of how to use it. I think your precedence is screwed up when you try to make a new Mail::Mailer object.

fairhousing — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 20:47:58 +0000

is smtp access what u need to run a web based email site?

merlin — Thu, 21 Dec 2000 15:02:55 +0000

well, it's not running yet...
what i have now:

%headers = ({	From => $list{'frommail'},
		To   => $list{'to'},
		Subject => 'Subject' });

eval {
   use Mail::Mailer;
   $mailer = new Mail::Mailer 'smtp', 'SMTP.MYSMTP.COM';
   $mailer->open(\%headers);
     print $mailer $mailbody;
   $mailer->close;
};

if ($@) {
   print "could not send mail: $@";
} else {
   print "mail sent";
}

'
i always get an error:

could not send mail: No mailer type specified (and no default available), thus can not find executable program. at [scriptpath] line 102

it has something to do with the smtp-function i suppose? but what's wrong with it? the syntax i got from perldoc

merlin — Wed, 20 Dec 2000 06:58:53 +0000

i see...
well, i looked in my cookbook for mail::mailer, and now it seems i understood what's going on... probably i'll be back again with more mail-questions, i don't hope so...

roBofh — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 21:13:04 +0000

Yes, you have a SMTP host, but you do not understand Perl's open() function. Unless you open a pipe or are printing to some special device, you cannot simply open() a hostname. To connect to your SMTP host, you'd need to open up a socket to it, unless your SMTP host is the localhost, in which case you'd probably need to open a pipe to sendmail, as Rob P. and japhy showed. Doing open(MAIL, "smtp.domain.com") simply opens a file named 'smtp.domain.com', not a connection to that hostname.

Sending email from Perl is so common, that...

japhy — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 15:19:48 +0000

There are Perl modules to help you do the job. I'd look at Mail::Mailer if I were you.

By the way, when sending email content (like, to sendmail), there has to be a blank line between the headers and the body of the message.

open MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" or
  die "can't open sendmail: $!";
print MAIL << "EOM";
To: $to
From: $from
Subject: $subject

Body of message
EOM
close MAIL or
  die "can't send mail: $!";

merlin — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:49:05 +0000

yes, but isn't this only for sendmail? i have smtp.mydomain.com instead of /usr/lib/sendmail ...?

Rob Pengelly — Tue, 19 Dec 2000 12:41:59 +0000

This is the code that I use, and it works fine:

#!/usr/local/bin/perl
$mail_prog = '/usr/lib/sendmail' ;
open (MAIL, "|$mail_prog -t");
print MAIL "To: $theiremail\n";
print MAIL "Reply-to: $youremail\n";
print MAIL "From: $youremail\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "$body\n";
close (MAIL);