On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 10:12:38AM -0500, Wiggins d'Anconia wrote: > Matt Doughty wrote: > >On Wed, Mar 09, 2005 at 09:42:00AM -0800, Ted Zeng wrote: > > > modules that provide #1 will provide #2 too. And because talking to > sendmail at the command line can get very hairy very quickly you are > still better off letting a module do it. The interface has been designed > for ease of use, the module has (hopefully) been tested, possibly on many > platforms, and most provide an option to set which local mail > client/server you wish to talk to. So most can handle #2 using postfix, > sendmail, etc. Net::SMTP is probably one of the ones that can't, but then > you wouldn't want to build a message with it anyways. > > I spent 2 years working on an application that 90% of the time was > dealing with mail inbound or out, you need to be an absolute expert in > mail handling (which I am not by a long stretch!) to do so directly.
Which wasn't my point. My point was that you should choose something that uses a local mail client. As difficult as handling message construction might be, it generally isn't nearly as nasty as implementing queueing yourself. Certainly, you can use something like Email::Send::Sendmail, and then you get the best of both worlds. I was objecting to those who were blindly recommending Net::SMTP. --Matt
