On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 2:50 AM, Luca Ferrari <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 24, 2017 at 7:51 AM, ToddAndMargo <[email protected]> > wrote: > > Am I blind or is there nowhere to set the subject of an eMail > > in Net::SMTP? > > I suspect it is implementing a quite low-level interface: smtp does > not know anything about a subject, it simply sends it as a line > "Subject: foo bar" > followed by an empty line a your message body. In other words: the > subject is in the payload before your message content. > Same thing as when you asked about attaching files; I think I mentioned at the time it also didn't include headers. Subject: is probably the most important header --- although many mail systems will reject it if it also doesn't have From: and preferably Date: and Message-Id:. You might poke around to see if there is a module that implements at least RFC822 and preferably RFC2422 to build a proper message. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates [email protected] [email protected] unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
