Gorby has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hello Wise Monks,

I'm using active perl for windows and I'd like to use Mime Lite. Unfortunately, ActiveState wants to charge me USD999 per year to use it. Is there a way I can use Mime Lite for free? Should I set up a pc with Ubuntu, install perl there and use Mime Lite for free on that machine?

Thanks in advance

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Re: Mime Lite
by kcott (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2013 at 03:36 UTC

    G'day Gorby,

    Firstly, it's important to use the correct name. I knew Mime Lite wasn't a module name. I tried Mime::Lite - that doesn't exist either. Do you mean MIME::Lite? If so, read the start of its documentation:

    "WAIT!
    MIME::Lite is not recommended by its current maintainer. There are a number of alternatives, ..."

    Perhaps you'll want to investigate some of those alternatives.

    I don't have ActivePerl. I suspect you've misinterpreted that price: you'll probably get more than 12 months use of a single module for $999. Anyway, I'm sure another monk who does use it, can provide accurate advice on that.

    Both the cpan utility and the CPAN module are bundled with the Perl distribution. Try cpan from the command line; if that doesn't work, try perl -MCPAN -e shell. If one of those gives you a prompt, go ahead and try to install your chosen module: 

    cpan[1]> install Module::Name

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Re: Mime Lite (misunderstandings)
by Anonymous Monk on Oct 11, 2013 at 03:09 UTC
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      Thanks for the advice re strawberry perl. I installed it and ran the perl program but got this error:

      SMTP Failed to connect to mail server: at perl_email_sender.cgi line 81.

      Here's my code:

      $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    From    => 'noreply@loadmena.com',
    To      => 'rvn@jade.com.ph',
    Subject => 'Test Subject',
    Type    => 'multipart/mixed',
);


$msg->attach(
    Type     => 'TEXT',
    Data     => "Test Email.",
);

$msg->send;

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      what am I missing?

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        I installed it and ran the perl program but got this error: what am I missing?

        Turn on debugging, get a better error message (other than "didn't work"), and then google message if it isn't obvious

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Re: Mime Lite
by ww (Archbishop) on Oct 11, 2013 at 11:13 UTC
    At least for 5.016 (the free or so-called "Community edition") and earlier, AS does NOT charge for use of MIME::Lite. 
    C:\>ppm search MIME::Lite
Downloading ActiveState Package Repository packlist...done
...
1: MIME-Lite
   unknown
   Version: 3.029
   Released: 2012-08-17
   Author: Ricardo SIGNES <rjbs@cpan.org>
   Provide: MIME::Lite version 3.029
   Require: Email::Date::Format version 1 or better
   Require: File::Basename
   Require: File::Spec
   Repo: ActiveState Package Repository  # <--- 
   Link: http://ppm4.activestate.com/MSWin32-x86/5.16/1602/R/RJ/RJBS/M
+IME-Lite-3.029.ppmx
   CPAN: http://search.cpan.org/dist/MIME-Lite-3.029/

C:\>ppm update MIME::Lite
Downloading MIME-Lite-3.029...done
Downloading Email-Date-Format-1.004...done
Unpacking MIME-Lite-3.029...done
Unpacking Email-Date-Format-1.004...done
Generating HTML for MIME-Lite-3.029...done
Generating HTML for Email-Date-Format-1.004...done
Updating files in site area...done
   6 files installed

C:\>

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