This almost seems like a Faq, but several super searches didn't turn up much, so here goes it...

I have somehow managed to avoid sending email through Perl scripts in most of my projects to date. In the few cases where I have sent mail, I've used Mail::Sendmail. This isn't because I've analyzed all the options and concluded that Mail::Sendmail is the best suited to my task, but because I knew how to use it, and it seemed to get the job done okay.

There are a several drawbacks to Mail::Sendmail such as reading the entire message into memory twice. I'd also like to see how the other modules compare to it, so I'm looking for different options.

A search through cpan turns up many relevant modules including ones I've heard recommended extensively such as:

My questions are, what module(s) do you use to send email and what do you view as their advantages? Further, is it best to combine 2 modules such as lhoward suggests doing with Mime::Lite and Net::SMTP in this node? Thanks for your replies.

In reply to Email Modules by cjf

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