NAME

       Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained - An SMTP client supporting TLS and AUTH (DEPRECATED, use Net::SMTPS
       instead)

VERSION

       version 0.24

SYNOPSIS

        use Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained;
        my $mailer = Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained->new(
               'your.mail.host',
               Hello   =>      'some.host.name',
               Port    =>      25, #redundant
               User    =>      'emailguy',
               Password=>      's3cr3t');
        $mailer->mail('emailguy@your.mail.host');
        $mailer->to('someonecool@somewhere.else');
        $mailer->data;
        $mailer->datasend("Sent thru TLS!");
        $mailer->dataend;
        $mailer->quit;

DESCRIPTION

       DEPRECATED!, Please use Net::SMTPS instead.

       Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained is forked from Net::SMTP::TLS. blame "Evan Carroll" for the idea. :)

       Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained is a TLS and AUTH capable SMTP client which offers an interface that users
       will find familiar from Net::SMTP. Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained implements a subset of the methods
       provided by that module, but certainly not (yet) a complete mirror image of that API.

       The methods supported by Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained are used in the above example. Though self
       explanatory for the most part, please see the perldoc for Net::SMTP if you are unclear.

       The differences in the methods provided are as follows:

           The mail method does not take the options list taken by Net::SMTP

           The to method also does not take options, and is the only method available to set the recipient
           (unlike the many synonyms provided by Net::SMTP).

           The constructor takes a limited number of Net::SMTP's parameters. The constructor for
           Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained takes the following (in addition to the hostname of the mail server,
           which must be the first parameter and is not explicitly named):

               NoTLS - In the unlikely event that you need to use this class to perform non-TLS SMTP (you ought
               to be using Net::SMTP itself for that...), this will turn off TLS when supplied with a true
               value. This will most often cause an error related to authentication when used on a server that
               requires TLS

               Hello - hostname used in the EHLO command

               Port - port to connect to the SMTP service (defaults to 25)

               Timeout - Timeout for inital socket connection (defaults to 5, passed directly to
               IO::Socket::INET)

               User - username for SMTP AUTH

               Password - password for SMTP AUTH

   TLS and AUTHentication
       During construction of an Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained instance, the full login process will occur. This
       involves first sending EHLO to the server, then initiating a TLS session through STARTTLS. Once this is
       complete, the module will attempt to login using the credentials supplied by the constructor, if such
       credentials have been supplied.

       The AUTH method will depend on the features returned by the server after the EHLO command. Based on that,
       CRAM-MD5 will be used if available, followed by LOGIN, followed by PLAIN. Please note that LOGIN is the
       only method of authentication that has been tested. CRAM-MD5 and PLAIN login functionality was taken
       directly from the script mentioned in the acknowledgements section, however, I have not tested them
       personally.

   ERROR HANDLING
       This module will croak in the event of an SMTP error. Should you wish to handle this gracefully in your
       application, you may wrap your mail transmission in an eval {} block and check $@ afterward.

   ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
       This code was blatantly plagiarized from Michal Ludvig's smtp-client.pl script. See
       <http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp> for his excellent work.

       Improvements courtesy of Tomek Zielinski

AUTHORS

       •   Alexander Christian Westholm <awestholm at verizon dawt net>

       •   Fayland Lam <fayland@gmail.com>

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

       This software is copyright (c) 2011 by Alexander Christian Westholm, Fayland Lam.

       This is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as the Perl 5
       programming language system itself.