NAME¶
Mail::Transport::Mailx - transmit messages using external mailx program
INHERITANCE¶
Mail::Transport::Mailx
is a Mail::Transport::Send
is a Mail::Transport
is a Mail::Reporter
SYNOPSIS¶
my $sender = Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(...);
$sender->send($message);
DESCRIPTION¶
Implements mail transport using the external programs 'mailx', "Mail",
or 'mail'. When instantiated, the mailer will look for any of these binaries
in specific system directories, and the first program found is taken.
WARNING: There are many security issues with mail and mailx. DO NOT USE
these commands to send messages which contains data derived from any
external source!!!
Under Linux, freebsd, and bsdos the "mail", "Mail", and
"mailx" names are just links to the same binary. The implementation
is very primitive, pre-MIME standard, what may cause many headers to be lost.
For these platforms (and probably for other platforms as well), you can better
not use this transport mechanism.
Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Transport::Send.
METHODS¶
Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Transport::Send.
Constructors¶
Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Transport::Send.
- Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(%options)
-
-Option --Defined in --Default
executable Mail::Transport undef
hostname Mail::Transport 'localhost'
interval Mail::Transport 30
log Mail::Reporter 'WARNINGS'
password Mail::Transport undef
port Mail::Transport undef
proxy Mail::Transport undef
retry Mail::Transport <false>
style <autodetect>
timeout Mail::Transport 120
trace Mail::Reporter 'WARNINGS'
username Mail::Transport undef
via Mail::Transport 'mailx'
- executable => FILENAME
- hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY
- interval => SECONDS
- log => LEVEL
- password => STRING
- port => INTEGER
- proxy => PATH
- retry => NUMBER|undef
- style => 'BSD'|'RFC822'
- There are two version of the "mail" program. The newest accepts
RFC822 messages, and automagically collect information about where the
message is to be send to. The BSD style mail command predates MIME, and
expects lines which start with a '~' (tilde) to specify destinations and
such. This field is autodetect, however on some platforms both versions of
"mail" can live (like various Linux distributions).
- timeout => SECONDS
- trace => LEVEL
- username => STRING
- via => CLASS|NAME
Sending mail¶
Extends "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send.
- $obj->destinations( $message, [$address|ARRAY] )
- Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send
- $obj->putContent($message, $fh, %options)
- Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send
- $obj->send($message, %options)
- Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send
- $obj->trySend($message, %options)
Server connection¶
Extends "Server connection" in Mail::Transport::Send.
- $obj->findBinary( $name, [@directories] )
- Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport
- $obj->remoteHost()
- Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport
- $obj->retry()
- Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport
Error handling¶
Extends "Error handling" in Mail::Transport::Send.
- $obj->AUTOLOAD()
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->addReport($object)
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level,
$callback] )
- Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel,
$tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->errors()
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
- Mail::Transport::Mailx->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->logPriority($level)
- Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority($level)
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->logSettings()
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->notImplemented()
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->report( [$level] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->reportAll( [$level] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->trace( [$level] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->warnings()
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
Cleanup¶
Extends "Cleanup" in Mail::Transport::Send.
- $obj->DESTROY()
- Inherited, see "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter
DIAGNOSTICS¶
- Warning: Message has no destination
- It was not possible to figure-out where the message is intended to go
to.
- Error: Package $package does not implement $method.
- Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not
implement this method where it should. This message means that some other
related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does
not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author
of the package.
- Warning: Resent group does not specify a destination
- The message which is sent is the result of a bounce (for instance created
with Mail::Message::bounce()), and therefore starts with a
"Received" header field. With the "bounce", the new
destination(s) of the message are given, which should be included as
"Resent-To", "Resent-Cc", and "Resent-Bcc".
The "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" header information
is only used if no "Received" was found. That seems to be the
best explanation of the RFC.
As alternative, you may also specify the "to" option to some of
the senders (for instance Mail::Transport::SMTP::send(to) to overrule any
information found in the message itself about the destination.
- Error: Sending via mailx mailer $program failed: $! ($?)
- Mailx (in some shape: there are many different implementations) did start
accepting messages, but did not succeed sending it.
SEE ALSO¶
This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.117, built on August 24,
2014. Website:
http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/
LICENSE¶
Copyrights 2001-2014 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
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
