I've always used this: http://search.cpan.org/~markov/MailTools-2.13/lib/Mail/Mailer.pod
On 11/19/2014 09:22 AM, Sergio Letuche wrote:
ok this is what i asked, could a mail be sent without mailx been installed, thank you 2014-11-19 16:19 GMT+02:00 PHILLIPS M.E. <m.e.phill...@durham.ac.uk <mailto:m.e.phill...@durham.ac.uk>>: Not sure exactly what you mean by not using a mailer.____ __ __ In our Perl scripts I tend to do:____ __ __ open (MAIL, "|-", '/bin/mailx', '-s', $subject, @addresses)____ || die "Failed to e-mail report: $!\n";____ print MAIL $report;____ close MAIL;____ __ __ which relies on mailx being installed and able to send messages.____ __ __ I’m sure there are SMTP modules for Perl, and things like that which could do it all at socket level, but I wouldn’t see that as being easier necessarily. It depends on what control you have over your server.____ __ __ Matthew____ __ __ *From:*Sergio Letuche [mailto:code4libus...@gmail.com <mailto:code4libus...@gmail.com>] *Sent:* 19 November 2014 08:31 *To:* perl4lib@perl.org <mailto:perl4lib@perl.org> *Subject:* send emails via perl____ __ __ hello,____ __ __ we need to use the easiest solution, if possible just use a perl module, to be able to send automated emails on an Ubuntu server. The scenario is this: we ran a cron job, and say we would like to send a message after completion, to a certain for example gmail account. The ideal would be to not use any mailer, is this possible? Or could you please suggest us the best - easiest approach?____ __ __ Thank you____
