Assuming you have an SMTP server lying around, then the simplest and most unified way of sending mail is to use Mail::Sendmail. It does not require sendmail, and is a pure Perl module.

The trouble with Net::SMTP is that it talks raw SMTP. If the remote server is not responding you have to deal with retrying yourself, whether this be through secondary MXes (a dying breed, thanks to spam) or exponential backoff. These tasks are much better handled by an SMTP server. Use it.

The examples bundled with Mail::Sendmail show a few recipes for generating MIME-encoded mail, which can save you from having to install MIME-tools (although that's a very handy module to have in its own right).

Thanks to the power of RFC documents, there is a standard method for sending e-mail. Hence there is no need for multiple drivers (thank Baud).

In reply to Re: Unified Perl Email. Has it been done? (yes) by grinder
in thread Unified Perl Email. Has it been done? by ngibsonau

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