Re: send emails via perl

I've always used this:

http://search.cpan.org/~markov/MailTools-2.13/lib/Mail/Mailer.pod

On 11/19/2014 09:22 AM, Sergio Letuche wrote:
> ok this is what i asked, could a mail be sent without mailx been installed,
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> thank you
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> 2014-11-19 16:19 GMT+02:00 PHILLIPS M.E. <[email protected]
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>     Not sure exactly what you mean by not using a mailer.____
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>     In our Perl scripts I tend to do:____
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>     open (MAIL, "|-", '/bin/mailx', '-s', $subject, @addresses)____
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>              || die "Failed to e-mail report: $!\n";____
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>     print MAIL $report;____
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>     close MAIL;____
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>     which relies on mailx being installed and able to send messages.____
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>     I’m sure there are SMTP modules for Perl, and things like that which
>     could do it all at socket level, but I wouldn’t see that as being
>     easier necessarily. It depends on what control you have over your
>     server.____
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>     Matthew____
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>     *From:*Sergio Letuche [mailto:[email protected]
>     <mailto:[email protected]>]
>     *Sent:* 19 November 2014 08:31
>     *To:* [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]>
>     *Subject:* send emails via perl____
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>     hello,____
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>     we need to use the easiest solution, if possible just use a perl
>     module, to be able to send automated emails on an Ubuntu server. The
>     scenario is this: we ran a cron job, and say we would like to send a
>     message after completion, to a certain for example gmail account.
>     The ideal would be to not use any mailer, is this possible? Or could
>     you please suggest us the best - easiest approach?____
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>     Thank you____
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