NAME
Mail::Send - Simple electronic mail interface
SYNOPSIS
require Mail::Send;
$msg = Mail::Send->new;
$msg = Mail::Send->new(Subject => 'example', To => 'timbo');
$msg->to('user@host');
$msg->to('user@host', 'user2@example.com');
$msg->subject('example subject');
$msg->cc('user@host');
$msg->bcc('someone@else');
$msg->set($header, @values);
$msg->add($header, @values);
$msg->delete($header);
# Launch mailer and set headers. The filehandle returned
# by open() is an instance of the Mail::Mailer class.
# Arguments to the open() method are passed to the Mail::Mailer
# constructor.
$fh = $msg->open; # some default mailer
$fh = $msg->open('sendmail'); # explicit
print $fh "Body of message";
$fh->close # complete the message and send it
or die "couldn't send whole message: $!\n";DESCRIPTION
Mail::Send creates e-mail messages without using the Mail::Header knowledge, which means that all escaping and folding must be done by you! Simplicity has its price.
When you have time, take a look at Mail::Transport
METHODS
Constructors
Mail::Send->new(PAIRS)
A list of header fields (provided as key-value PAIRS) can be used to initialize the object.
Header fields
$obj->add(FIELDNAME, VALUES)
Add values to the list of defined values for the FIELDNAME.
$obj->bcc(VALUES)
$obj->cc(VALUES)
$obj->delete(FIELDNAME)
$obj->set(FIELDNAME, VALUES)
VALUES will replace the old values for the FIELDNAME. Returned is the LIST of values after modification.
$obj->subject(VALUES)
$obj->to(VALUES)
Sending
$obj->open(OPTIONS)
The OPTIONS are used to initiate a mailer object via Mail::Mailer::new(). Then Mail::Mailer::open() is called with the knowledge collected in this Mail::Send object.
SEE ALSO
This module is part of the MailTools distribution, http://perl.overmeer.net/mailtools/.
AUTHORS
The MailTools bundle was developed by Graham Barr. Later, Mark Overmeer took over maintenance without commitment to further development.
Mail::Cap by Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>. Mail::Field::AddrList by Peter Orbaek <poe@cit.dk>. Mail::Mailer and Mail::Send by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>. For other contributors see ChangeLog.
LICENSE
Copyrights 1995-2000 Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com> and 2001-2007 Mark Overmeer <perl@overmeer.net>.
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