Looking for Console Friendly Mailer Module

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

Dear Masters,

I have the following script. Which use MIME::Lite, now problem I have is that only web-based email client (e.g. gmail, yahoo, hotmail, server_webmail) can receive email sent by this script.

Is there any module that is more robust, which can be opened both web based and console based (e.g. pine, mutt) email client.

use MIME::Lite;

my $for_whom     = "somebody@tolove.com";
my $sender_email = "lonely@girl.com";
my $message      = "Forget me not";
my $subject      = "FOO BAR";

send_email_noattach($for_whom,$sender_email,$message,$subject);

sub send_email_noattach {

    
    # using MIME::Lite
    my ( $target_add, $my_add, $mssg, $subject ) = @_;

    my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
        From    => $my_add,       
        To      => $target_add,   
        Subject => $subject,      
        Type    => 'multipart/plain',
    );

    $msg->attach(
        Type => 'TEXT',
        Data => $mssg
    );


    $msg->send();

    return;              
}
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Re: Looking for Console Friendly Mailer Module by gellyfish (Monsignor) on May 20, 2006 at 08:31 UTC
I'm not so sure that the messages can't be received by the text based clients, I just think that they don't know what to do with them. You don't need to send a multipart mail anyway if all you are sending is plain text, but I don't think that multipart/plain is actually a legitimate content type, and if it is I don't think it us going to be understood by the majority of clients. You either need to use multipart/alternative and include an HTML part or just use a single part like: `my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From => $my_add, To => $target_add, Subject => $subject, Type => 'TEXT', Data => $mssg );` [download] /J\	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Looking for Console Friendly Mailer Module by pKai (Priest) on May 20, 2006 at 10:13 UTC
Sending a `TEXT` attachment (read `text/plain` in Mime speak) as the only part of a multipart message has its advantages. You can expect that long lines (read links) aren't broken apart by the mailer software non-reversible, as it will happen with such beasts in `text/plain` messages often. Anyway, the correct `Type` for such a message is `multipart/mixed`, see also the corresponding example in the MIME::Lite doc.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Looking for Console Friendly Mailer Module by bart (Canon) on May 20, 2006 at 14:59 UTC
You can easily use MIME::Lite to send MIME-free mail messages. I'm guessing that is what you want. ANd it's as simple as this: don't attach anything, put the mail body in the "Data" parameter.	[reply]
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