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NAME

       Mail::Mailer - send simple emails

INHERITANCE

        Mail::Mailer
          is an 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".

           [added  2.21]  You  may also use the "StartTLS => 1" options to upgrade the connection with STARTTLS.
           You need "libnet" version 1.28 (2014) for this to work.

           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"
           This option is deprecated when you have "libnet" 1.28 (2014) and above.

           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, %options)
           The $type is one of the back-end sender implementations, as described in the DESCRIPTION  chapter  of
           this manual page.  The %options 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 2001-2017 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 v5.36.0                                       2022-08-28                                  Mail::Mailer(3pm)