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Mail::Mailer(3)	      User Contributed Perl Documentation      Mail::Mailer(3)

NAME
       Mail::Mailer - Simple interface to electronic mailing mechanisms

INHERITANCE
	Mail::Mailer
	  is a IO::Handle

SYNOPSIS
	 use Mail::Mailer;
	 use Mail::Mailer qw(mail);    # specifies default mailer

	 $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new;
	 $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new($type, @args);

	 $mailer->open(\%headers);
	 print $mailer $body;
	 $mailer->close
	     or die "couldn't send whole message: $!\n";

DESCRIPTION
       Sends mail using any of the built-in methods.  As TYPE argument to
       new(), you can specify any of

       "sendmail"
	   Use the "sendmail" program to deliver the mail.

       "smtp"
	   Use the "smtp" protocol via Net::SMTP to deliver the mail. The
	   server to use can be specified in @args with

	       $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new('smtp', Server => $server);

	   The smtp mailer does not handle "Cc" and "Bcc" lines, neither their
	   "Resent-*" fellows. The "Debug" options enables debugging output
	   from "Net::SMTP".

	   You may also use the "Auth => [ $user, $password ]" option for SASL
	   authentication (requires Authen::SASL and MIME::Base64).

       "qmail"
	   Use qmail's qmail-inject program to deliver the mail.

       "testfile"
	   Used for debugging, this displays the data to the file named in
	   $Mail::Mailer::testfile::config{outfile} which defaults to a file
	   named "mailer.testfile".  No mail is ever sent.

       "Mail::Mailer" will search for executables in the above order. The
       default mailer will be the first one found.

METHODS
       Constructors

       Mail::Mailer->new(TYPE, ARGS)

	   The TYPE is one of the back-end sender implementations, as
	   described in the DESCRIPTION chapter of this manual page.  The ARGS
	   are passed to that back-end.

       $obj->open(HASH)

	   The HASH consists of key and value pairs, the key being the name of
	   the header field (eg, "To"), and the value being the corresponding
	   contents of the header field.  The value can either be a scalar
	   (eg, "gnat@frii.com") or a reference to an array of scalars ("eg,
	   ['gnat@frii.com', 'Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk']").

DETAILS
       ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES

       PERL_MAILERS
	   Augments/override the build in choice for binary used to send out
	   our mail messages.

	   Format:

	       "type1:mailbinary1;mailbinary2;...:type2:mailbinaryX;...:..."

	   Example: assume you want you use private sendmail binary instead of
	   mailx, one could set "PERL_MAILERS" to:

	       "mail:/does/not/exists:sendmail:$HOME/test/bin/sendmail"

	   On systems which may include ":" in file names, use "⎪" as separa‐
	   tor between type-groups.

	       "mail:c:/does/not/exists⎪sendmail:$HOME/test/bin/sendmail"

       BUGS

       Mail::Mailer does not help with folding, and does not protect against
       various web-script hacker attacks, for instance where a new-line is
       inserted in the content of the field.

SEE ALSO
       This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.over‐
       meer.net/mailtools/.

AUTHORS
       The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr.  Later, Mark Over‐
       meer 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 2001-2007 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

perl v5.8.8			  2008-07-29		       Mail::Mailer(3)
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