Mail::Transport::Sendmail.3pm

Langue: en

Version: 2010-07-02 (fedora - 01/12/10)

Section: 3 (Bibliothèques de fonctions)

NAME

Mail::Transport::Sendmail - transmit messages using external Sendmail program

INHERITANCE

  Mail::Transport::Sendmail
    is a Mail::Transport::Send
    is a Mail::Transport
    is a Mail::Reporter
 
 

SYNOPSIS

  my $sender = Mail::Transport::Sendmail->new(...);
  $sender->send($message);
 
 

DESCRIPTION

Implements mail transport using the external 'Sendmail' program. When instantiated, the mailer will look for the binary in specific system directories, and the first version found is taken.

Some people use Postfix as MTA. Postfix can be installed as replacement for Sendmail: is provides a program with the same name and options. So, this module supports postfix as well.

METHODS

Constructors

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->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>
  sendmail_options                   []
  timeout           Mail::Transport  120
  trace             Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
  username          Mail::Transport  undef
  via               Mail::Transport  'sendmail'
 
 
. executable => FILENAME
. hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY-OF-HOSTNAMES
. interval => SECONDS
. log => LEVEL
. password => STRING
. port => INTEGER
. proxy => PATH
. retry => NUMBER|undef
. sendmail_options => ARRAY
Add to the command-line of the started sendmail MTU a list of separate words. So say " [ '-f', $file ] " and not " [ "-f $file" ] ", because the latter will be taken by sendmail as one word only.

. timeout => SECONDS
. trace => LEVEL
. username => STRING
. via => CLASS|NAME

Sending mail

$obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES])
See ``Sending mail'' in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS)

See ``Sending mail'' in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

See ``Sending mail'' in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

  Option          --Default
  sendmail_options  undef
 
 
. sendmail_options => ARRAY

Server connection

$obj->findBinary(NAME [, DIRECTORIES])
See ``Server connection'' in Mail::Transport

$obj->remoteHost

See ``Server connection'' in Mail::Transport

$obj->retry

See ``Server connection'' in Mail::Transport

Error handling

$obj->AUTOLOAD
See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->logPriority(LEVEL)

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report([LEVEL])

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings

See ``Error handling'' in Mail::Reporter

Cleanup

$obj->DESTROY
See ``Cleanup'' in Mail::Reporter

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See ``Cleanup'' in Mail::Reporter

DIAGNOSTICS

Error: Errors when closing sendmail mailer $program: $!
The was no problem starting the sendmail mail transfer agent, but for some specific reason the message could not be handled correctly.

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.

SEE ALSO

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.095, built on July 02, 2010. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

Copyrights 2001-2010 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