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Authen::Simple::SMTP(3pm) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::SMTP(3pm)
 

NAME

Authen::Simple::SMTP - Simple SMTP authentication

SYNOPSIS

    use Authen::Simple::SMTP;
    
    my $smtp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new( 
        host => 'smtp.company.com'
    );
    
    if ( $smtp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMTP
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMTP_host "smtp.company.com"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::SMTP
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

DESCRIPTION

Authenticate against a SMTP service.

METHODS

new
This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:
host
Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to "localhost".
    host => 'ftp.company.com'
    host => '10.0.0.1'
    
port
Connection port, default to 25.
    port => 25
    
timeout
Connection timeout, defaults to 60.
    timeout => 60
    
log
Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".
    log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::SMTP')
    
authenticate( $username, $password )
Returns true on success and false on failure.

SEE ALSO

Authen::Simple.
Net::SMTP.

AUTHOR

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

COPYRIGHT

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
2014-05-14 perl v5.18.2