Mail::Send usage question

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

This script dies at Mailer.pm line 270.

Can someone explain why? I am at work where they use Exchange for the e-amil system.

Here's the code:

require Mail::Send;

    $msg = new Mail::Send;
    $msg->to('fmogo@mninter.net');
    $msg->subject('Send Mail Test');
    $msg->delete($header);
    $fh = $msg->open or die "Couldn't open message: $!" ;
    print $fh "Just testing the Mail::Send package";
    $fh->close;
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Re: Mail::Send usage question by wine (Scribe) on Jul 23, 2001 at 23:06 UTC
I find no problems with it. I even accidenty mailed `fmogo@mninter.net`. ;) I guess it's a problem with your exchange server or you reaching it. Update 2 By default Send.pm uses Mailer.pm which by default uses `mail` or `sendmail` to deliver your message. You might want to try explicitly specifying your smtp-server and thereby implicitely using Net::SMTP. You're not dependent on mail or sendmail being installed, which is I guess cause of the 270-error. `require Mail::Send; $msg = new Mail::Send; $msg->to('fmogo@mninter.net'); $msg->subject('Send Mail Test'); $msg->delete($header); $fh = $msg->open('smtp', Server => "smtp.uu.nl") or die "Couldn't open + message: $!" ; print $fh "Just testing the Mail::Send package"; $fh->close;` [download] Perhaps this works.	[reply] [d/l]
Re: Mail::Send usage question by Agermain (Scribe) on Jul 24, 2001 at 00:32 UTC
I think I had a similar problem with our own mailserver. You may need to specify an on-site email address for the $msg->from() field. For example, if your site were yoursite.com and your SMTP server is exchange.yoursite.com , you might need to give it an valid address like yourname@yoursite.com in order for Exchange to let it pass. I'm guessing this is one of Exchange's security settings (believe it or not, I think MS actually thought about this issue!) - andre	[reply]
Re: Mail::Send usage question by theharry (Sexton) on Jul 23, 2001 at 22:59 UTC
Perhaps it is because you are deleting the header before you are sending the message, or because your exchange server is not allowing you through. You might also need a from line to satisfy the server try removing the delete line first... theharry	[reply]