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

I'm using the perl code on my windows site. (visual basic) I'm trying to send an email with the following. Apparantely sendmail isn't available. I was told by my webhost that hmail was available. I just want to use SMTP to fire off some emails: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Email::Sender::Simple qw(sendmail);
use Email::Simple;
use Email::Simple::Creator;
use Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP;

my $email = Email::Simple->create(
  header => [
    To      => 'sking@adomain.com.com',
    From    => 'admin@mydomain.com',
    Subject => "sample message",
  ],
  body => "Greetings,\nTyped message (content)\nGoodbye.\n",
);

my $transport = Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP->new({
  host => 'mail.mydomain.com',
  sasl_username => 'admin@mpros.com',
  sasl_password => '**',
});

sendmail($email, { transport => $transport });
exit;

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Can someone please help with this?

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Re: SMTP mail not working for me
by Anonymous Monk on Jan 13, 2012 at 03:56 UTC

    Can someone please help with this?

    So what happens?

    What happens when you turn on debugging?

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      Hi. I add my use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); and I got: Can't locate Net/SMTP_auth.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl64/site/lib C:/Perl64/lib .) at C:\HostingSpaces\zlinkexc\mortgagerefinancingpros.com\wwwroot\cgi-bin\smtp2.cgi line 5. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at C:\HostingSpaces\zlinkexc\mortgagerefinancingpros.com\wwwroot\cgi-bin\smtp2.cgi line 5. For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error message and the time and date of the error. 
      !C:\Perl\bin\perl.exe -w


use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Net::SMTP_auth;
$smtpserver = 'mail.mortgagerefinancingpros.com';
my $ServerAccount = "admin\@mortgagerefinancingpros.com";
my $ServerPwd = "pianos78997";

my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($smtpserver, Hello => "mortgagerefinancingpr
+os.com",  Debug
+ => 1);
$smtp->auth('CRAM-MD5', '$ServerAccount', '$ServerPwd');


$recipient = 'admin@mortgage-pros.com' ;
$from       = 'admin@mortgagerefinancingpros.com' ;
#$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('', 
            Timeout => 60,
            Debug   => 1);
## smtp server requires authentication 
#$smtp->auth('admin@mortgagerefinancingpros.com','pianos78997');
$smtp->mail($from);
$smtp->to($recipient);

$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("To: $recipient\n");
$smtp->datasend("Subject: test message\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n");
$smtp->dataend();

$smtp->quit;

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        The error message means you need to install Net::SMTP_auth. In addition:

        my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new( ... );

        ... should probably be instead:

        my $smtp = Net::SMTP_auth->new( ... );

        ... and you almost certainly don't need the single quotes in:

        $smtp->auth('CRAM-MD5', '$ServerAccount', '$ServerPwd');

        ... if you want the values of the variables, and not the literal strings.

        Improve your skills with Modern Perl: the free book.

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