NAME¶
Mail::Transport::Send - send a message
INHERITANCE¶
Mail::Transport::Send
is a Mail::Transport
is a Mail::Reporter
Mail::Transport::Send is extended by
Mail::Transport::Exim
Mail::Transport::Mailx
Mail::Transport::Qmail
Mail::Transport::SMTP
Mail::Transport::Sendmail
SYNOPSIS¶
my $message = Mail::Message->new(...);
# Some extensions implement sending:
$message->send;
$message->send(via => 'sendmail');
my $sender = Mail::Transport::SMTP->new(...);
$sender->send($message);
DESCRIPTION¶
Send a message to the destinations as specified in the header. The
"Mail::Transport::Send" module is capable of autodetecting which of
the following modules work on your system; you may simply call
"send" without "via" options to get a message transported.
- •
- Mail::Transport::Sendmail
Use sendmail to process and deliver the mail. This requires the
"sendmail" program to be installed on your system. Whether this
is an original sendmail, or a replacement from Postfix does matter.
- •
- Mail::Transport::Exim
Use "exim" to distribute the message.
- •
- Mail::Transport::Qmail
Use "qmail-inject" to distribute the message.
- •
- Mail::Transport::SMTP
In this case, Perl is handling mail transport on its own. This is less
desired but more portable than sending with sendmail or qmail. The
advantage is that this sender is environment independent, and easier to
configure. However, there is no daemon involved which means that your
program will wait until the message is delivered, and the message is lost
when your program is interrupted during delivery (which may take hours to
complete).
- •
- Mail::Transport::Mailx
Use the external "mail", "mailx", or "Mail"
programs to send the message. Usually, the result is poor, because some
versions of these programs do not support MIME headers. Besides, these
programs are known to have exploitable security breaches.
Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Transport.
METHODS¶
Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Transport.
Constructors¶
Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Transport.
- Mail::Transport::Send->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>
timeout Mail::Transport 120
trace Mail::Reporter 'WARNINGS'
username Mail::Transport undef
via Mail::Transport 'sendmail'
- executable => FILENAME
- hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY
- interval => SECONDS
- log => LEVEL
- password => STRING
- port => INTEGER
- proxy => PATH
- retry => NUMBER|undef
- timeout => SECONDS
- trace => LEVEL
- username => STRING
- via => CLASS|NAME
Sending mail¶
- $obj->destinations( $message, [$address|ARRAY] )
- Determine the destination for this message. If a valid $address is
defined, this is used to overrule the addresses within the message. If the
$address is "undef" it is ignored. It may also be an ARRAY of
addresses.
If no $address is specified, the message is scanned for resent groups (see
Mail::Message::Head::Complete::resentGroups()). The addresses found
in the first (is latest added) group are used. If no resent groups are
found, the normal "To", "Cc", and "Bcc"
lines are taken.
- $obj->putContent($message, $fh, %options)
- Print the content of the $message to the $fh.
-Option --Default
body_only <false>
undisclosed <false>
- body_only => BOOLEAN
- Print only the body of the message, not the whole.
- undisclosed => BOOLEAN
- Do not print the "Bcc" and "Resent-Bcc" lines. Default
false, which means that they are not printed.
- $obj->send($message, %options)
- Transmit the $message, which may be anything what can be coerced into a
Mail::Message, so including Mail::Internet and MIME::Entity messages. It
returns true when the transmission was successfully completed.
-Option --Default
interval new(interval)
retry new(retry)
to undef
- interval => SECONDS
- retry => INTEGER
- to => STRING
- Overrules the destination(s) of the message, which is by default taken
from the (Resent-)To, (Resent-)Cc, and (Resent-)Bcc.
- $obj->trySend($message, %options)
- Try to send the message. This will return true if successful, and false in
case some problems where detected. The $? contains the exit status of the
command which was started.
Server connection¶
Extends "Server connection" in Mail::Transport.
- $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.
- $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,
$callback] )
- Mail::Transport::Send->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel,
$tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->errors()
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
- Mail::Transport::Send->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
- Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter
- $obj->logPriority($level)
- Mail::Transport::Send->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.
- $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: Transporters of type $class cannot send.
- The Mail::Transport object of the specified type can not send messages,
but only receive message.
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