Re: email activation link

You could use Mail::Send to send your mails, so you wouldn't have to care about creating an RFC-compliant header and stuff. IMHO you should send mails in plaintext whenever possible because all MUA's can display them, which is not true for HTML.

use Mail::Send;
$msg = new Mail::Send;
$msg->to('user@host');
$msg->subject('example subject');
$fh = $msg->open('sendmail');
print $fh "Body of message";
$fh->close;
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What you could do to make registration easier is: Allow the user to reply, keeping subject intact. So he hasn't go trough the hassle of fireing up his browser and visit any links.

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Re^2: email activation link by boboson (Monk) on Mar 23, 2006 at 23:14 UTC
Thanks for the guidance. Now I understand a little bit more how the different modules work. One problem though. I am now using the MIME::Lite module to send my mail with sendmail. `my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From =>'johan@domain.com, To =>'user@hotmail.com', Subject =>'Registration', Data =>"Klick on the link.\n\n$link\n\n ); $msg->send;` [download] However, probably because of all spam being sent nowdays, I can't send the same email twice to a hotmail, gmail address. If I change the from field it's ok but otherwise it won't even hit the spambox. Does anyone now if this is within a timeframe or...just curious	[reply] [d/l]
Re^2: email activation link by Scott7477 (Chaplain) on Mar 23, 2006 at 19:14 UTC
I agree with both of timos's points here. Allowing the user to register by simply replying with an email where the subject line is automatically filled in is a good practice. More generally, making subscribing and unsubscribing to email lists as simple as possible should be the goal of any list operator.	[reply]
Re^2: email activation link by boboson (Monk) on Mar 23, 2006 at 20:34 UTC
basically, I make sure that the registered users emailadress is valid and belongs to the user. How would my application know that the user replied?	[reply]
Re^2: email activation link by Anonymous Monk on Mar 24, 2006 at 00:08 UTC
Thanks for the guidance. Now I understand a little bit more how the different modules work. One problem though. I am now using the MIME::Lite module to send my mail with sendmail. `my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From =>'johan@domain.com, To =>'user@hotmail.com', Subject =>'Registration', Data =>"Klick on the link.\n\n$link\n\n ); $msg->send;` [download] However, probably because of all spam being sent nowdays, I can't send the same email twice to a hotmail, gmail address. If I change the from field it's ok but otherwise it won't even hit the spambox. Does anyone now if this is within a timeframe or...just curious	[reply] [d/l]