I MIME::Lite to send messages. It uses your native sendmail install, or you can use it to send to an SMPT port. We actually have Qmail installed and it use the sendmail link Qmail configs and works just fine for about 40k emails a day.
> -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Clarke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Saturday, July 20, 2002 8:28 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Mail::Sender & modperl. > > > List, > Have any of you had any problems using Mail::Sender from within > mod_perl. My script seems to just sit there waiting for > $sender->Open to > do anything. I will email the author also but imagined he > *might* not be > familiar with mod_perl so won't be able to offer any suggestions. > Anyone? I looked through the archives but saw no reference to > a problem > like this. Some people indicated much success with > Mail::Sender (not so > for me however!). > > Second, the recommended solution for sending mails is to instead put > them on a queue for an external daemon to handle. My question is, is > there a standard implementation people use when doing this. > Is the KISS > theory invoked and the outoing mail simply written to some plain text > spool file or do people use something more involved like writing the > to,cc,from,subject,body test to a database and storing any temporary > files (attachment) in a directory for later encoding? > > Ric > > p.s. here is an excerpt from my apache log indicating > precisely what happens > > >> 220 mail.likewhoa.com ESMTP Postfix > 421 Error: timeout exceeded > << ehlo localhost > << mail from: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > << rcpt to: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > << data > << To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > << From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > << X-Mailer: Perl script "null" > << using Mail::Sender 0.7.14.1 by Jenda Krynicky > << running on localhost (127.0.0.1) > << under account "root" > << Date: Sat, 20 Jul 2002 13:18:12 -0000 > << Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > << Subject: msg msg msg > << > close sender > << > << . > << quit > done > The request took 305.710375070572 seconds > >
