Perl email::send.. how to send the email?

hawk__0 · 12-24-2009, 12:03 PM

I followed the example on the cpan page, and at the end it prints the email on the terminal. How do I actually send the email?

nadroj · 12-24-2009, 12:28 PM

After a quick search for similar Perl functions, it appears some of these functions just call an external tool, (i.e. "sendmail", a simple Unix command-line tool). If your on Linux then you probably have one of these tools built in and just need to point to where its located.

Alternatively, you might be able to use this (without any external requirements): http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.21/Net/SMTP.pm. Just start with one of the number of examples on that page.

If you have problems then post your code.

hawk__0 · 12-24-2009, 12:51 PM

hawk__0 · 12-24-2009, 12:52 PM

Here is the chunk of code that does the email. I am running linux, but using mutt instead of sendmail

Code:

					open TEXT, "< ~/report.txt";
					my $msg = *TEXT;
					my $email = Email::Simple->create(
						header => [
							From	=> 'sgregory@elandatamakers.com',
							To	=> 'steve@staticg.com',
							Subject	=> 'Daily Report',
							],
						body => $msg,
					);
					$email->header_set( 'X-Content-Container' => 'bottle/glass' );
					print $email->as_string;

					print "Email sent.  Press enter to continue.";
					<>;
				}
				}
			}

}

nadroj · 12-24-2009, 01:12 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by CPAN

Email::Simple - simple parsing of RFC2822 message format and headers

It seems the module your using has nothing to do with sending an email. It only prepares the email for sending. After you have prepared the email (i.e. your code above), you might be able to just send the email using your command-line email tool with the content of the email being "$email->as_string". Look up the man page for whatever tool your using, and see how you can pass the entire email (headers/body) to the tool for it to send. Once you've figured out the arguments, then simply call the tool in your Perl script.

hawk__0 · 12-24-2009, 01:22 PM

Thanks, I think I'll try the SMTP module.

Sergei Steshenko · 12-24-2009, 01:53 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by hawk__0

Thanks, I think I'll try the SMTP module.

CPAN has a whole bunch of Email related modules - just search and select a good one.