Provided by: libemail-stuffer-perl_0.012-1_all 
NAME
Email::Stuffer - A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails
VERSION
version 0.012
SYNOPSIS
# Prepare the message
my $body = <<'AMBUSH_READY';
Dear Santa
I have killed Bun Bun.
Yes, I know what you are thinking... but it was actually a total accident.
I was in a crowded line at a BayWatch signing, and I tripped, and stood on
his head.
I know. Oops! :/
So anyways, I am willing to sell you the body for $1 million dollars.
Be near the pinhole to the Dimension of Pain at midnight.
Alias
AMBUSH_READY
# Create and send the email in one shot
Email::Stuffer->from ('cpan@ali.as' )
->to ('santa@northpole.org' )
->bcc ('bunbun@sluggy.com' )
->text_body($body )
->attach_file('dead_bunbun_faked.gif' )
->send;
DESCRIPTION
The basics should all work, but this module is still subject to name and/or API changes
Email::Stuffer, as its name suggests, is a fairly casual module used to stuff things into
an email and send them. It is a high-level module designed for ease of use when doing a
very specific common task, but implemented on top of the light and tolerable Email::
modules.
Email::Stuffer is typically used to build emails and send them in a single statement, as
seen in the synopsis. And it is certain only for use when creating and sending emails. As
such, it contains no email parsing capability, and little to no modification support.
To re-iterate, this is very much a module for those "slap it together and fire it off"
situations, but that still has enough grunt behind the scenes to do things properly.
Default Transport
Although it cannot be relied upon to work, the default behaviour is to use "sendmail" to
send mail, if you don't provide the mail send channel with either the "transport" method,
or as an argument to "send".
(Actually, the choice of default is delegated to Email::Sender::Simple, which makes its
own choices. But usually, it uses "sendmail".)
Why use this?
Why not just use Email::Simple or Email::MIME? After all, this just adds another layer of
stuff around those. Wouldn't using them directly be better?
Certainly, if you know EXACTLY what you are doing. The docs are clear enough, but you
really do need to have an understanding of the structure of MIME emails. This structure is
going to be different depending on whether you have text body, HTML, both, with or without
an attachment etc.
Then there's brevity... compare the following roughly equivalent code.
First, the Email::Stuffer way.
Email::Stuffer->to('Simon Cozens<simon@somewhere.jp>')
->from('Santa@northpole.org')
->text_body("You've been good this year. No coal for you.")
->attach_file('choochoo.gif')
->send;
And now doing it directly with a knowledge of what your attachment is, and what the
correct MIME structure is.
use Email::MIME;
use Email::Sender::Simple;
use IO::All;
Email::Sender::Simple->try_to_send(
Email::MIME->create(
header => [
To => 'simon@somewhere.jp',
From => 'santa@northpole.org',
],
parts => [
Email::MIME->create(
body => "You've been a good boy this year. No coal for you."
),
Email::MIME->create(
body => io('choochoo.gif'),
attributes => {
filename => 'choochoo.gif',
content_type => 'image/gif',
},
),
],
);
);
Again, if you know MIME well, and have the patience to manually code up the Email::MIME
structure, go do that, if you really want to.
Email::Stuffer as the name suggests, solves one case and one case only: generate some
stuff, and email it to somewhere, as conveniently as possible. DWIM, but do it as thinly
as possible and use the solid Email:: modules underneath.
METHODS
As you can see from the synopsis, all methods that modify the Email::Stuffer object
returns the object, and thus most normal calls are chainable.
However, please note that "send", and the group of methods that do not change the
Email::Stuffer object do not return the object, and thus are not chainable.
new
Creates a new, empty, Email::Stuffer object.
header_names
Returns, as a list, all of the headers currently set for the Email For backwards
compatibility, this method can also be called as B[headers].
parts
Returns, as a list, the Email::MIME parts for the Email
header $header => $value
Sets a named header in the email. Multiple calls with the same $header will overwrite
previous calls $value.
to $address
Sets the To: header in the email
from $address
Sets the From: header in the email
cc $address
Sets the Cc: header in the email
bcc $address
Sets the Bcc: header in the email
subject $text
Sets the Subject: header in the email
text_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ]
Sets the text body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for
you. You may override any as needed. See Email::MIME for the actual headers to use.
If $body is undefined, this method will do nothing.
html_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ]
Set the HTML body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for
you. You may override any as needed. See Email::MIME for the actual headers to use.
If $body is undefined, this method will do nothing.
attach $contents [, $header => $value, ... ]
Adds an attachment to the email. The first argument is the file contents followed by (as
for text_body and html_body) the list of headers to use. Email::Stuffer should TRY to
guess the headers right, but you may wish to provide them anyway to be sure. Encoding is
Base64 by default.
attach_file $file [, $header => $value, ... ]
Attachs a file that already exists on the filesystem to the email. "attach_file" will
auto-detect the MIME type, and use the file's current name when attaching.
transport
$stuffer->transport( $moniker, @options )
or
$stuffer->transport( $transport_obj )
The "transport" method specifies the Email::Sender transport that you want to use to send
the email, and any options that need to be used to instantiate the transport. $moniker is
used as the transport name; if it starts with an equals sign ("=") then the text after the
sign is used as the class. Otherwise, the text is prepended by
"Email::Sender::Transport::". In neither case will a module be automatically loaded.
Alternatively, you can pass a complete transport object (which must be an
Email::Sender::Transport object) and it will be used as is.
email
Creates and returns the full Email::MIME object for the email.
as_string
Returns the string form of the email. Identical to (and uses behind the scenes)
Email::MIME->as_string.
send
Sends the email via Email::Sender::Simple.
On failure, returns false.
send_or_die
Sends the email via Email::Sender::Simple.
On failure, throws an exception.
COOKBOOK
Here is another example (maybe plural later) of how you can use Email::Stuffer's brevity
to your advantage.
Custom Alerts
package SMS::Alert;
use base 'Email::Stuffer';
sub new {
shift()->SUPER::new(@_)
->from('monitor@my.website')
# Of course, we could have pulled these from
# $MyConfig->{support_tech} or something similar.
->to('0416181595@sms.gateway')
->transport('SMTP', { host => '123.123.123.123' });
}
package My::Code;
unless ( $Server->restart ) {
# Notify the admin on call that a server went down and failed
# to restart.
SMS::Alert->subject("Server $Server failed to restart cleanly")
->send;
}
TO DO
• Fix a number of bugs still likely to exist
• Write more tests.
• Add any additional small bit of automation that isn't too expensive
SEE ALSO
Email::MIME, Email::Sender, <http://ali.as/>
AUTHORS
• Adam Kennedy <adamk@cpan.org>
• Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE
This software is copyright (c) 2004 by Adam Kennedy and Ricardo SIGNES.
This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
the Perl 5 programming language system itself.