CAM::EmailTemplate::SMTP - Net::SMTP based email message sender
LICENSE
Copyright 2005 Clotho Advanced Media, Inc., <
[email protected]>
This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
under the same terms as Perl itself.
ABOUT CLOTHO
"CAM" stands for Clotho Advanced Media Inc. (www.clotho.com) which
developed this module. Contact us at
[email protected].
INSTALLATION
Install via one of the following:
perl Makefile.PL
make
make test
make install
or
perl Build.PL
perl Build
perl Build test
perl Build install
To get the full effect of testing, please specify a recipient email
address and mailhost:
setenv RECIPIENT
[email protected]
setenv MAILHOST mail.foo.com
To take advantage of Net::SMTP's debugging capabilities, use this:
setenv SMTPTemplate_Debug 1
DESCRIPTION
This module alters the CAM::EmailTemplate mail delivery mechanism to
use raw SMTP delivery (via Net::SMTP) instead of relying on the
sendmail binary program. This module is useful for machines which are
not configured to do their own mail delivery. Instead, the programmer
or user specifies a mail server to use as the delivery agent.
This module most closely resembles Mail::Send with the smtp
option. It has the following advantages:
* Integration of templating
* Ability to manually customize the presentation of the mail headers
(this is the reason why I use Net::SMTP instead of Mail::Send on
the back end -- Mail::Mailer::rfc822 hardcodes too much)
and the following disadvantages:
* Only supports SMTP delivery (but see also CAM::EmailTemplate)
* Doesn't offer an easy-to-understand API for building the header
* Fewer mail delivery options
This module can be extended to use alternate templating syntax just
like CAM::EmailTemplate. See the example in the README for that
module, and just append "::SMTP" to all instances of
"CAM::EmailTemplate".
