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[Fletch]

% perldoc -q 'How do I send mail'
Found in /usr/lib/perl5/5.6.1/pod/perlfaq9.pod
       How do I send mail?

       Use the "sendmail" program directly:

           open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t -odq")
                               or die "Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n";
           print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
           From: User Originating Mail <me\@host>
           To: Final Destination <you\@otherhost>
           Subject: A relevant subject line

           Body of the message goes here after the blank line
           in as many lines as you like.
           EOF
           close(SENDMAIL)     or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";

       The -oi option prevents sendmail from interpreting a line
       consisting of a single dot as "end of message".  The -t
       option says to use the headers to decide who to send the
       message to, and -odq says to put the message into the
       queue.  This last option means your message won't be imme-
       diately delivered, so leave it out if you want immediate
       delivery.

       Alternate, less convenient approaches include calling mail
       (sometimes called mailx) directly or simply opening up
       port 25 have having an intimate conversation between just
       you and the remote SMTP daemon, probably sendmail.

       Or you might be able use the CPAN module Mail::Mailer:

           use Mail::Mailer;

           $mailer = Mail::Mailer->new();
           $mailer->open({ From    => $from_address,
                           To      => $to_address,
                           Subject => $subject,
                         })
               or die "Can't open: $!\n";
           print $mailer $body;
           $mailer->close();

       The Mail::Internet module uses Net::SMTP which is less
       Unix-centric than Mail::Mailer, but less reliable.  Avoid
       raw SMTP commands.  There are many reasons to use a mail
       transport agent like sendmail.  These include queueing, MX
       records, and security.
        

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