SMTP - Needs authentication.

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

Hi, I've taken the basic perl script for sending an email.

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new($mail) or die "Couldn't connect to server";
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It has authentication around it - or it has on outlook anyway. Is there a way to send my authentication to the server to enable me to send emails? I can't see it in any methods to add my user id and passwords.

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Re: SMTP - Needs authentication. by tirwhan (Abbot) on Nov 09, 2005 at 19:04 UTC
Take a look at `perldoc Net::SMTP` , particularly the `auth()` method. You need to have the `MIME::Base64` and `Authen::SASL` modules installed for that to work though.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: SMTP - Needs authentication. by zentara (Cardinal) on Nov 09, 2005 at 19:34 UTC
`#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Net::SMTP_auth; my $smtp = Net::SMTP_auth->new('zentara.zentara.net'); $smtp->auth('LOGIN', 'z', 'ztestpass'); $smtp->mail('z@zentara.zentara.net'); $smtp->to('zentara@zentara.zentara.net'); $smtp->data(); $smtp->datasend("To: postmaster\n"); $smtp->datasend("\n"); $smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n"); $smtp->dataend(); $smtp->quit;` [download] I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth. flash japh	[reply] [d/l]