Mime::Lite was just what I thought I needed to send authenticated multipart mail. However, it did not handle SMTP auth and I realized there was no code in this module for this. So I wrote a little bit of code for it in sub send_by_smtp 
{
  my %args = @args[1..$#args];
  $smtp->auth($args{AuthUser}, $args{AuthPass}) 
    if (defined $args{AuthUser} and defined $args{AuthPass});
}

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and then thought I would report it to the maintainer via RT but since there are 27 open bugs I don't think that filing another will do any good. this is a very key module for Perl/CPAN, why is the request queue so full of bugs?

In reply to Mime::Lite is an important... and unmaintained module? by metaperl

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