Why don't you just file an http://rt.cpan.org bug against it? demerphq was the maintainer the last time I noticed. You could just as well get a fixed module. Also, consider marking it up on http://AnnoCPAN.org.

Thanks diotalevi,

I should have noted (which I have now done) that I sent this to http://rt.cpan.org before I posted here. The maintenance cycle for the module seems to be fairly slow, 3.01_05 - a developers release was in December 2005, the last general release was in April 2003. Although demerphq is listed as maintainer the most recent reference in the documentation, to the as yet non-existent 3.02, is from Sam Tregar.

I placed this here so that anyone searching for the problem here would find a simple solution, I spent 2 or 3 hours on the issue, hopefully I can save others the same effort.

jdtoronto

There is a new maintainer. Give it some time while he gets caught up :)

A big problem for me with regard to supporting MIME::Lite is that people who send me bug fixes and the like tend not to follow up with feedback. For instance MIME::Lite has been at 3.01_05 for a long time, partly because I have received almost no feedback about 3.01_05 and whether it is production worthy.

I will say that i keep meaning to take some time to make a last release before bart takes over full time maint. So...... Feedback about 3.01_05 would be nice. You are after all the only person I definitively know is using it.

I admit that i havent given M::L the focus I should have. Hacking on perls regex engine has proved to be much more fun. :-)

I seem to remember talk about this recently, but it eludes me now. So I will mention using Net::SMTP_auth, which works with MIME::LITE. I know it's not exactly addressing the point of your post, but maybe the module author has a reason to keep auth and non-auth separate. ( Maybe because it works as it is? )

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
use Net::SMTP_auth;

my $Servername = "mail.foobar.com";
my $Port = 587;
my $Username = "z+foobar.com";
my $Password = "foobar-secret";
my $Auth_type = 'LOGIN'; #PLAIN, LOGIN, CRAM-MD5#

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( 
  From  => 'z@foobar.com',
  TO    => 'zentara@zentara.net', 
  Subject  => 'Testing Text Message with auth',
  Data     => 'How\'s it going. Sent with  Net-SMTP_auth' 
  );

#my $msgbody = $msg->as_string();

#my $smtp = Net::SMTP_auth->new($Servername, Port=> $Port );
my $smtp = Net::SMTP_auth->new($Servername, Port=>$Port, Debug => 1 );
$smtp->auth( $Auth_type, $Username , $Password ); 

$smtp->mail('zentara@zentara.net');
$smtp->to('zentara@zentara.net');

$smtp -> data();
$smtp -> datasend( $msg->as_string() );
$smtp -> dataend();
$smtp -> quit;
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but maybe the module author has a reason to keep auth and non-auth separate.

Auth came later. The original had no support for it.

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