Hi Monks,

I'm using Mail::Sender to send emails automatically from my application: it's a very nice little tool.

However I have a problem in that, depending on the setup (ie ISP/router), sometimes it works and sometimes the connection times out (Error connect() failed: Connection timed out. However other email clients do work.

I have extracted a bit of the code into a standalone application which reproduces the problem. However the debug file remains resolutely empty. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

use Mail::Sender;

    my $sender = new Mail::Sender {
            auth => 'PLAIN',
            authid => 'user',            # Change this.
            authpwd => 'password',            # Change this.
            smtp => 'smtpserver.mydomain.com',      # Change this.
            from => 'user@mydomain.com',        # Change this.
            to => 'foo.bar@yourdomain.com',        # Change this.
            subject => 'test subject',
            msg => 'This is a text email',
            file => '/home/foo/bar/default.pdf',
            debug => "/home/foo/bar/SendMailDebug.txt",
            debug_level => 4,
            timeout => 500,
    };
    my $result =  $sender->MailFile({
            msg => $sender->{msg},
            file => $sender->{file},
    });

    print "$sender->{error_msg}\n>>>End.\n";
1;

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Am I using it right?

How can I get the debug function to give me something useful?

Any other ideas.

Regards

Steve

In reply to Mail::Sender Problems. by Steve_BZ

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