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. To make this
           work, you have to install the Authen::SASL distribution yourself: it is not automatically installed.

       "smtps"
           Use the smtp over ssl protocol via Net::SMTP::SSL to deliver the mail.  Usage is identical to "smtp".
           You have to install Authen::SASL as well.

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

       "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 separator 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.overmeer.net/mailtools/.

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 2001-2007 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 v5.24.1                                       2016-12-27                                  Mail::Mailer(3pm)