in reply to Sending e-mail problem

As long as we're recommending mail modules, don't forget about MIME::Lite. Half the calories, twice the flavor.

MIME::Lite makes it very easy to adapt to systems with or without their own native mail transport.

I like using tried and proven modules rather than tackling "it's been done a million times" type problems from scratch. I've never been gung-ho enough to try to write my own mail transport as your script attempts to do, so I don't know the answer to the next question I'm going to ask... When you initiate your socket connection, is it a problem that you're starting with "HELO" instead of "HELLO"?


Dave

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Re^2: Sending e-mail problem
by Crackers2 (Parson) on Jun 24, 2004 at 19:02 UTC

    HELO is the correct opening for a classic SMTP session (and if you're using extended SMTP it's EHLO)

    See RFC 821 for the details of the protocol. It's fairly simple and imo not a bad protocol to start with if you're trying to roll your own client for educational purposes.

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      IIRC your supposed to do EHLO first, if the response is wrong try HELO. But i may not RC. :-)


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        Only if the client supports ESMTP and makes use of the codes returned. If it doesn't use SMTP extensions, then starting with HELO is fine.
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