Need to send email via SMTP server that has username and password. Using MIME::Entity which uses smtpsend. The problem is I don't know how to pass the package the username and password. When I omit the "auth" line and use an SMTP server that does not require authentication this works like a charm. 
sub sSendEmailMIME {
   use Mail::Internet;
   use MIME::Entity;


   my $retval = 0;
   my ($to,$from,$subject,$with,$encoding,$filename) = @_;

   if ( my $msg = MIME::Entity->build(From    => $from,
                                 To      => $to,
                                 Subject => $subject,
                                 Type    => 'text/html',
                      Encoding => "7bit",
                              Path     => "$filename",
                              Filename => "$filename") ) {

                if ( $msg->smtpsend(Host => 'smtp.whatever.net') ) {
                   $msg->auth ('me@whatever.net','123abc');
                   $retval = 1;
                   print "sent\n";
                } else {
                   print "send FAILED: $!\n";
                }
   }
   return $retval;
}

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This invariably gives me a "send FAILED" without explanation.

Thanks for your help.

Gary

In reply to Problem passing ESMTP username/password through MIME::Enity by gary kuipers

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