Numerous pure-Perl solutions exist for sending email. The one I am most familiar with is Mail::Sendmail. You should be able to edit the defaults to something sensible, and ftp the module (Sendmail.pm) to what will probably be the c:/perl/lib/site_perl/Mail directory. I suspect the site_perl directory will exist, but you might have to mkdir the Mail subdirectory.

Once you get that far, the main trick will be to build up the body of the message by concatenating to a string, and then doing something like:

  my %mail;
  $mail{'From'}    = 'me@example.com';
  $mail{'To'}      = 'you@example.com';
  $mail{'Subject'} = 'The moon is blue';
  $mail{'Body'}    = $some_humongous_string;
  sendmail( %mail ) or warn "sendmail error: $Mail::Sendmail::error\n"
+;

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An alternative is to use Net::SMTP, which has a number of fans around here. I've used it a couple of times with satisfactory results.

In any event, you should be able to drag postmail to the recycle bin in short order!


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In reply to Re: `postmail by grinder
in thread alternatives to postmail? by Gerard

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