in reply to Need a Mail::SendEasy example using attachments

keithneargarder--

I don't have one for Mail::SendEasy, but I have one I did a while ago using Mime::Lite and Net::SMTP. Here it is, if it'll help...

#!/usr/bin/perl
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
# faxer.pl <recipient> <file>
#
# Send file <file> to <recipient>.  Note that the recipient field is
# a specially formatted field that contains recipient name, fax #,
# and email address of the fax server, like so:
#
#       "/name=Lonnie Phillips/fax=5551234/<rfax@npc.net>"
#
# 20050111 Roboticus - Added comments, some error checking
# ???????? LPhillips - originally written
#-------------------------------------------------------------------

use strict;

use MIME::Lite;
MIME::Lite->send('smtp','mail.your.domain',Timeout=>60);

use Net::SMTP;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mail.your.domain', Debug=>1);
print $smtp->domain,"\n";

my $usage=
'usage: faxer.pl <recipient>
where:
        <recipient> = Fax address, formatted like:
                "/name=Roboticus/fax=5551234/<rfax@your.domain>"
';

#my $fax_dest = @ARGV[0] or die $usage . "\nmissing <recipient>";

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
        To      => '/name=%fromName%/fax=%toFax%/<rfax@your.domain>',
        From    => 'MailBot@your.domain',
        Subject => 'Roboticus\'s test fax',
        Type    => 'multipart/related',
) or die "Error creating MIME container!\n";

$msg->attach(
        Type    => 'text/html',
        Data    => qq {<html>
<body>
<img src="cid:ltrhead.gif">
</p>
<div align="center">
<table border="1">
 <tr align="center"><td colspan="2">TO</td><td colspan="2">FROM</td></
+tr>
 <tr><td align="right">Name:</td><td>%toName%</td><td align="right">Na
+me:</td><t
d>%fromName%</tr>
 <tr><td align="right">Fax:</td><td>%toFax%</td><td align="right">Fax:
+</td><td>%
fromFax%</td></tr>
 <tr><td></td><td></td><td align="right">Phone:</td><td>%fromPhone%</t
+d></tr>
 <tr><td></td><td></td><td align="right">EMail:</td><td>%fromEMail%</t
+d></tr>
</table>
</div>
<hr>
</p>
To Whom It May Concern,</p>
Regional Security is currently conducting a review on merchant
%MerchID% "%MerchName%" for a batch of \$%MerchBatch%.</p>
All funds are on hold until the review is complete.  If you have any
questions or information, please feel free to contact me at %fromPhone
+%
or email me at %fromEMail%.</p>

Thank You,</p>
%fromName%
</body>
</html>
        },
) or die "Error creating HTML!\n";

$msg->attach(
        Type    => 'image/gif',
        Id      => 'ltrhead.gif',
        Path    => 'fake_letterhead.gif',
) or die "Error adding image!\n";

open(OUTF,">faxer.mht") or die "Can't open output file";
print OUTF $msg->as_string;
close(OUTF);

$smtp->mail('mmason@npc.net');
##$smtp->to('/name=Roboticus/fax=5551234/<rfax@your.domain>');
$smtp->to('roboticus@your.domain');
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend($msg->as_string);
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit();

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Note: I've hacked out a little proprietary stuff, and this is just an experimental (proof of concept) program I wrote some time ago. It functions, but will need some tweaking!

--roboticus

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Re^2: Need a Mail::SendEasy example using attachments
by duckyd (Hermit) on Aug 16, 2006 at 22:02 UTC
    I'm not quite sure why you need to use Net::SMTP in your example, I've had luck with code like the following: 
    use strict; use warnings;
use MIME::Lite;
        
my $msg = MIME::Lite->build(
    From    => 'from@mail.address',
    To      => 'recipient@mail.address',
    Subject => 'some subject',
    Type    => 'multipart/mixed',
);  
                  
$msg->attach( Type     => 'TEXT',
              Data     => "see attached file\n\n"
            );
    
                  
$msg->attach( Type => 'AUTO',  # change AUTO to your prefered type if 
+you wish
              Path => '/path/to/some/file',
);  
                  
# MIME::Lite->send('smtp', 'some.smtp.host' );  # don't use sendmail, 
+see POD

$msg->send();

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      duckyd--

      I don't know that I needed it, but after hacking around with it last year, once I got it working, I stopped.

      Next time I have to do some EMail stuff, I'll use your suggestion and tune up the code a bit. Thanks!

      --roboticus

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Sending an attachment with MIME::Lite. RFC2111 Content-Id requirements
by imp (Priest) on May 14, 2007 at 19:13 UTC
    RFC2111 specifies:
    Note: in Internet mail messages, the addr-spec in a Content-ID [MIME] or Message-ID [822] header are enclosed in angle brackets (<>).
    Whether this is neccesary depends on the mail client. Gmail requires the angle brackets, Outlook does not. To make this work in the above example this should be used instead: 
    $msg->attach(
        Type    => 'image/gif',
        Id      => '<ltrhead.gif>',
        Path    => 'fake_letterhead.gif',
);

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    The current version of MIME::Lite (3.0.1) does not add the angle brackets, but that could change in the future so be sure to check the documentation.
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