using Mail::Sender

[Graeme McLaren]

Hi all, I'm wanting to use the Mail::Sender module. When sending emails
I'll need to use an SMTP server. On CPAN I found the following in the
documentation, is this all I would need to send email? What is the "auth"
key for? Surely all you need is a host, username and password?


if ($sender->MailMsg({
smtp => 'mail.yourISP.com',
from => '***@somewhere.com',
to =>'***@Krynicky.czX',
subject => 'this is a test',
msg => "Hi Johnie.\nHow are you?"
auth => 'NTLM',
authid => 'jenda',
authpwd => 'benda',
}) < 0) {
die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n";
}
print "Mail sent OK."


Cheers,

G :)

[Offer Kaye]

Post by Graeme McLaren
Hi all, I'm wanting to use the Mail::Sender module. When sending emails
I'll need to use an SMTP server. On CPAN I found the following in the
documentation, is this all I would need to send email? What is the "auth"
key for? Surely all you need is a host, username and password?

If indeed you are using a login method (username and password), then

Post by Graeme McLaren
auth => 'NTLM',
auth => 'LOGIN',

HTH,

[Graeme McLaren]

Offer, everyone, I tried sending an email from a mail server and I got an
error:

Local user "user" unknown on host "mail.smtpserver.com"


It seems to break on $email. The "user" that the error reports is the value
of $email, so why isn't it sending the email?

Offer thank you for your reply, that was helpful!


Here's the code:

######################################
my $sender=Mail::Sender->new;
if ($sender->MailMsg({
smtp => 'mail.smtpserver.com',
from => '***@mydomain.com',
to => "$email",
subject => 'test email',
msg => 'testing email',
auth => 'LOGIN',
authid => 'username',
authpwd => 'password',
}) < 0) {
die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n";
}
print "Mail sent OK."
######################################

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Post by Graeme McLaren
Hi all, I'm wanting to use the Mail::Sender module. When sending emails
I'll need to use an SMTP server. On CPAN I found the following in the
documentation, is this all I would need to send email? What is the

"auth"

Post by Graeme McLaren
key for? Surely all you need is a host, username and password?

If indeed you are using a login method (username and password), then

Post by Graeme McLaren
auth => 'NTLM',
auth => 'LOGIN',

HTH,
--
Offer Kaye
--
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[Offer Kaye]

Post by Graeme McLaren
Offer, everyone, I tried sending an email from a mail server and I got an
Local user "user" unknown on host "mail.smtpserver.com"
It seems to break on $email. The "user" that the error reports is the value
of $email, so why isn't it sending the email?
to => "$email",

According to http://search.cpan.org/dist/Mail-Sender/Sender.pm#AUTHENTICATION
: "If you get a "Local user "***@yyy.com" unknown on host "zzz""
message... it only accepts messages to or from a local user."
Maybe your server doesn't like '***@mydomain.com' as a from
field? More likely, 'user' is not a valid email - try using a real
email address. I you want to use a name, the format is usually "user
<***@mydomain.com>".

HTH,

[zentara]

Post by Graeme McLaren
Hi all, I'm wanting to use the Mail::Sender module. When sending emails
I'll need to use an SMTP server. On CPAN I found the following in the
documentation, is this all I would need to send email? What is the "auth"
key for? Surely all you need is a host, username and password?
if ($sender->MailMsg({
smtp => 'mail.yourISP.com',
subject => 'this is a test',
msg => "Hi Johnie.\nHow are you?"
auth => 'NTLM',
authid => 'jenda',
authpwd => 'benda',
}) < 0) {
die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n";
}
print "Mail sent OK."

The auth is for authentication. Most ISP's now require you to
validate who you are, and some are on ports other than the standard
port 25, to get around ISP's blocking port 25.