Sending email in perl

Eagle_f91 has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

My host requires SMTP authentication to send email and I have been seraching for almost a week tyring to figure out how to do it. I have even searched here and tryed some of the suggestions but nothing works. Can anyone tell me how to send email with SMTP authentication or if you not willing to tell me can I buy the information from you? One of my sites is not compleatly useless because I can no longer send email without using athentication.

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Re: Sending email in perl by merlyn (Sage) on Sep 15, 2005 at 23:37 UTC
So, you've already tried and rejected Email::Send::SMTP::Auth? What didn't work about that? -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker Be sure to read my standard disclaimer if this is a reply.	[reply]
Re: Sending email in perl by saintmike (Vicar) on Sep 15, 2005 at 23:38 UTC
Net::SMTP provides an `auth(user, pass)` method. Use Mail::Mailer to send your email.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: Sending email in perl by Eagle_f91 (Acolyte) on Sep 16, 2005 at 00:20 UTC
I have tryed the Net:SMTP module and I get an error of not being able to call AUTH on an uninitialized value. (The same goes for NET::SMTP_Auth) For Mail::Mailer I can not figure out how to call the auth command. As for Email::Send::SMTP::Auth I have looked at it but I can not figure out how to send header information and message text. I am really new to perl so these online docs cpan gives really do not help me. It seams to me the docs are eather poorly written or geared to you pros.	[reply]
Re^3: Sending email in perl by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 16, 2005 at 00:47 UTC
Show us the code that gives the uninitialized value error. Perl is Huffman encoded by design.	[reply]
Re^4: Sending email in perl by Eagle_f91 (Acolyte) on Sep 16, 2005 at 00:52 UTC
Re^5: Sending email in perl by GrandFather (Saint) on Sep 16, 2005 at 01:04 UTC
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Re^5: Sending email in perl by BaldPenguin (Friar) on Sep 16, 2005 at 14:46 UTC