E-mail with perl

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

Is there a way to embed the text into an e-mail, without sending the e-mail, letting the user send it. I was wondering if there is a module out there or an outlook API or something.

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Re: E-mail with perl by IndyZ (Friar) on Mar 24, 2003 at 02:06 UTC
You can use Win32::Ole to communicate with Outlook. This has been discussed in the node MS Outlook & Win32::OLE. -- IndyZ	[reply]
Re: E-mail with perl by grantm (Parson) on Mar 24, 2003 at 02:10 UTC
The simplest option would be to send the email to the user and they could forward it. Or, if you're giving them an HTML page you could include a hyperlink of the form `<a href="mailto:user@domain?subject=Blah&body=Blah%20Blah">Send Email</a>`. Or, (once again assuming an HTML interface) you could give them the email body in a textarea in a form. When they submit the form (presumably after editing the text), your script would use Mail::Sender or similar to send it.	[reply] [d/l]