meenac has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:


Hi All,

I have the following code running on Win 2K and I am
using active perl. 
use Net::SMTP;

# connect to an SMTP server
$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('SMTP Server'); 
$smtp->mail( "sender address" ); 
$smtp->to("receipient address");

$smtp->data();

$smtp->datasend("To: receipient address"\n");
$smtp->datasend("From: sender address\n");
$smtp->datasend("Subject : Analysis Summary\n");
$smtp->datasend('c:\temp\analysis.csv');
$smtp->datasend(); 
$smtp->quit;

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When I run this code, no subject is sent. The
sent timestamp is none as well. How can I add a
subject line and a send timestamp to this email?

thanks.

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Re: Add Subject and timestamp to email
by friedo (Prior) on Dec 29, 2004 at 16:22 UTC
    You need to have a second newline after your headers. Try: 
    $smtp->datasend("To: receipient address"\n");
$smtp->datasend("From: sender address\n");
$smtp->datasend("Subject : Analysis Summary\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend('c:\temp\analysis.csv');
$smtp->dataend;
$smtp->quit;

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      Dear friedo,

      Thank you for your suggestion and it worked for
      adding the subject.
      Now, I need to add timestamp to the email.
      Any Suggestions?

      thanks.
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Re: Add Subject and timestamp to email
by Crackers2 (Parson) on Dec 29, 2004 at 17:43 UTC
    In addition to what friedo said, I don't think the space between "Subject" and ":" is allowed. Try getting rid of that and see if it makes a difference.
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