in reply to getting SMTP failure codes

OK, here's a partial success:

#test_mail.pl

use Net::SMTP;
use Net::Cmd;

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new(
        Host => '192.168.55.173',
        Debug => 1,
        );
$smtp -> mail("root\@test-server.my.home");
@good = $smtp -> recipient('good_address@my.home','bad_address@my.home
+',{ SkipBad => 1, Notify => ['FAILURE']});
$mess = $smtp->message();
$smtp -> data();
$smtp -> datasend("TO: good_address@my.home\n");
$smtp -> datasend("TO: bad_address@my.home\n");
$smtp -> datasend("SUBJECT: Test e-mail from root\n");
$smtp -> datasend("\n");
$smtp -> datasend("A test message.\n");
$smtp -> dataend();

print "These addresses went: @good\n";
print "Status of last address: $mess\n";
$smtp -> quit();

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Which outputs the following:

These addresses went: good_address@my.home
Status of last address: 5.1.1 User unknown

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But that only works if the bad address is the last one in the list. (OK, that's fine for some cgi scripts I have that only accept one e-mail address.) But how to get each result dynamically?

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Re^2: getting SMTP failure codes
by chuckbutler (Monsignor) on Feb 05, 2010 at 01:42 UTC

    My only improvement would be to loop on the call to 'recipient( )' and capture the results yourself. Please see below. 'recipient( )' does this internally, anyway. Good luck. -c 

    #test_mail.pl

use Net::SMTP;
use Net::Cmd;

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new(
        Host => '192.168.55.173',
        Debug => 1,
        );
die "Did not connect to host..." unless defined($smtp);  #you can remo
+ve this, so it would die w/ your address
$smtp -> mail("root\@test-server.my.home");
@good = ();
@bad  = ();
@mess = ();
foreach $toadr (('good_address@my.home','bad_address@my.home')) { 
    if ($smtp -> recipient( $toadr,{ SkipBad => 0, Notify => ['FAILURE
+']})) {; #make result boolean, 1 ::= good
       push( @good, $toadr );
    } else {
       push( @bad,  $toadr );   
       push( @mess, $smtp->message() );
    }
}
$smtp -> data();
$smtp -> datasend("TO: good_address@my.home\n");
$smtp -> datasend("TO: bad_address@my.home\n");
$smtp -> datasend("SUBJECT: Test e-mail from root\n");
$smtp -> datasend("\n");
$smtp -> datasend("A test message.\n");
$smtp -> dataend();

print "These address(es) went: @good\n";
print "These address(es) were bad \[ and why \]:\n";
for (0..$#bad) {
    print "$bad[$_]  \[ $mess[$_] \]\n";
}
$smtp -> quit();

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      For some reason I was thinking that if I looped on them that it would take longer. But I timed it and the results are about the same (at least on my network & mail server). If recipient() is doing the same thing, then of course it wouldn't matter. (And I should have been able to figure that out from the debug output anyway!)

      So populating an array with the addresses, and then running a foreach loop on the array of addresses would get me where I want to go.

      Thanks for the clue!

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        How do i run this script on a root, i mean what command to use
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        How do i run this script on a root ? 
        #test_mail.pl

use Net::SMTP;

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new(
        Host => '192.168.55.173',
        Debug => 1,
        );
$smtp -> mail("root\@test-server.my.home");
@good = $smtp -> recipient('good_address@my.home','bad_address@my.home
+',{ SkipBad => 1, Notify => ['FAILURE']});
$smtp -> data();
$smtp -> datasend("TO: good_address@my.home\n");
$smtp -> datasend("TO: bad_address@my.home\n");
$smtp -> datasend("SUBJECT: Test e-mail from root\n");
$smtp -> datasend("\n");
$smtp -> datasend("A test message.\n");
$smtp -> dataend();

print "These addresses went: @good\n";
$smtp -> quit();

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