Sending Mail
Can anyone give me recommendations on a good Mail handler that integrates well with mod_perl? I have a system whereby I want to give people the ability to mail the currently viewed page to someone. Once they select a To: address, the system will look up some data, re-construct the viewed page in a textual format, and send the mail. I'm just looking for recommendations on a good perl mailing module for this kind of use. --Jon Robison
RE: Sending Mail
We use MIME::Lite seems to work well for us. -Original Message- From: Jon Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sending Mail Can anyone give me recommendations on a good Mail handler that integrates well with mod_perl? I have a system whereby I want to give people the ability to mail the currently viewed page to someone. Once they select a To: address, the system will look up some data, re-construct the viewed page in a textual format, and send the mail. I'm just looking for recommendations on a good perl mailing module for this kind of use. --Jon Robison
Re: Sending Mail
Can MIME::Lite do attachments? --Jon Joe Breeden wrote: We use MIME::Lite seems to work well for us. -Original Message- From: Jon Robison [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, June 13, 2002 8:57 AM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Sending Mail Can anyone give me recommendations on a good Mail handler that integrates well with mod_perl? I have a system whereby I want to give people the ability to mail the currently viewed page to someone. Once they select a To: address, the system will look up some data, re-construct the viewed page in a textual format, and send the mail. I'm just looking for recommendations on a good perl mailing module for this kind of use. --Jon Robison
Re: Sending Mail
Jon Robison wrote: Can MIME::Lite do attachments? yes. there is an example in the cookbook that uses MIME::Lite: http://www.modperlcookbook.org/code/ch15/Cookbook/Mail.pm http://www.modperlcookbook.org/code/ch15/Cookbook/EmailUploads.pm HTH --Geoff
Re: Sending Mail
Jon Robison wrote: Can MIME::Lite do attachments? yes, it can. install it, then read perldoc MIME::Lite for info on how.
Re: Sending Mail
I'm using Mail::Sender which can send attachments. Not sure how it compares to Mime::Lite. -doug On Thu, 13 Jun 2002, Jon Robison wrote: Can anyone give me recommendations on a good Mail handler that integrates well with mod_perl? I have a system whereby I want to give people the ability to mail the currently viewed page to someone. Once they select a To: address, the system will look up some data, re-construct the viewed page in a textual format, and send the mail. I'm just looking for recommendations on a good perl mailing module for this kind of use. --Jon Robison -- ~~ Doug Silver 619 235-2665 Network Manager Urchin Software Corp. http://www.urchin.com ~~
Re: Sending Mail
Geesh, it's nice having the books author(s) on the mailing list here! --Jon R. Geoffrey Young wrote: Jon Robison wrote: Can MIME::Lite do attachments? yes. there is an example in the cookbook that uses MIME::Lite: http://www.modperlcookbook.org/code/ch15/Cookbook/Mail.pm http://www.modperlcookbook.org/code/ch15/Cookbook/EmailUploads.pm HTH --Geoff
Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...
The advantage of using sendmail is
[1] a centralised MTA config.
[2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP
server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg automatic
resilience based on MX record rerouting can be nice.
Although in a mod_perl situation, I understand the launching of a system
call is not the best thing to do. However, it could be if sendmail itself
is launched to asynchronously handle the posting of the mail while the
cript continues on (if the mail server were otherwise slow for some
reason).
I guess what you use depends on what your circumstances are.
Later,
Gunther
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Stas Bekman wrote:
Hello, mod_perloids.
I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing
it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh
linux 5.2.
the code is
warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
open (SENDMAIL, $sendmailpath) || warn ("MAIL: Cannot open sendmail
at \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
print SENDMAIL ( "From: Eidos Web Password Assistant
passwordhelp\@".$dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname."\n".
"To: You ".$dbh-{param}-{csemail}."\n".
"Subject:
".$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordsubject}."\n\n".
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext1}.
$result[1].
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext2}.
($dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname).($dbh-{r}-uri()).
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext3}.
"\n.\n");
warn ("MAIL: Mail Sent okay!");
close (SENDMAIL);
I ditched the fail-result tests in desperation. :)
It tells me the mail has been sent okay (even when the failiure tests
were in place) but nothing. Not in the outgoing or incoming mail spools.
I tested this code as a vanilla cgi script, and it worked fine. I have
*no* idea why it won't work under mod_perl.
Anyone else had similar problems (or solutions :),
or should I Just Shut Up?
Hmmm, a funny way to ask questions... let me try too: Should we answer the
question or Just Shut Up? :)
Anyway, how do you know it's a mod_perl problem? How do you know it has
something to do with mail? Oh, yeah the mail has never reached the
destination... Did you try to print out what you send instead of piping it
to sendmail? Check that the generated headers are correct ones...
Other than that, why not to use Net::SMTP, which verifies each command and
you can arrange your code to die or warn on failure to send some field,
since it talks directly to the smtp server... take a look at the simple
send_mail() implemented that way (BTW, it's much faster and lighter than
sendmail, but this is off-topic...)
http://www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC/works/scripts/mail-lib.pl
Hope this helps...
___
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www.apache.org www.perl.com == www.modperl.com || perl.apache.org
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Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...
At 14:02 27/10/1999 -0400, Gunther Birznieks wrote: The advantage of using sendmail is [1] a centralised MTA config. [2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg automatic resilience based on MX record rerouting can be nice. Although in a mod_perl situation, I understand the launching of a system call is not the best thing to do. However, it could be if sendmail itself is launched to asynchronously handle the posting of the mail while the cript continues on (if the mail server were otherwise slow for some reason). To pretend this roughly on-topic, we'll say that the problem is actually to avoid spawning an external process everytime you want to send mail (which is imho the only problem with using sendmail). So far I have solved this by writing all emails to a file which gets rotated by a cron job. It's worked fine for me. .Robin Critic, n.: A person who boasts himself hard to please because nobody tries to please him.
Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Robin Berjon wrote: At 14:02 27/10/1999 -0400, Gunther Birznieks wrote: The advantage of using sendmail is [1] a centralised MTA config. [2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg automatic resilience based on MX record rerouting can be nice. Although in a mod_perl situation, I understand the launching of a system call is not the best thing to do. However, it could be if sendmail itself is launched to asynchronously handle the posting of the mail while the cript continues on (if the mail server were otherwise slow for some reason). To pretend this roughly on-topic, we'll say that the problem is actually to avoid spawning an external process everytime you want to send mail (which is imho the only problem with using sendmail). So far I have solved this by writing all emails to a file which gets rotated by a cron job. It's worked fine for me. I have achieved this by dumping sendmail. Seems like a far cleaner solution to me. Personally I use qmail, although I hear postfix and post.office are all good solutions. (although I don't know about the other's wrt spawning processes) -- Matt/ Details: FastNet Software Ltd - XML, Perl, Databases. Tagline: High Performance Web Solutions Web Sites: http://come.to/fastnet http://sergeant.org Available for Consultancy, Contracts and Training.
Trouble sending mail under modperl...
Hello, mod_perloids.
I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing
it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh
linux 5.2.
the code is
warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
open (SENDMAIL, $sendmailpath) || warn ("MAIL: Cannot open sendmail
at \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
print SENDMAIL ( "From: Eidos Web Password Assistant
passwordhelp\@".$dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname."\n".
"To: You ".$dbh-{param}-{csemail}."\n".
"Subject:
".$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordsubject}."\n\n".
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext1}.
$result[1].
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext2}.
($dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname).($dbh-{r}-uri()).
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext3}.
"\n.\n");
warn ("MAIL: Mail Sent okay!");
close (SENDMAIL);
I ditched the fail-result tests in desperation. :)
It tells me the mail has been sent okay (even when the failiure tests
were in place) but nothing. Not in the outgoing or incoming mail spools.
I tested this code as a vanilla cgi script, and it worked fine. I have
*no* idea why it won't work under mod_perl.
Anyone else had similar problems (or solutions :), or should I Just Shut
Up?
Dave
Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...
Hello, mod_perloids.
I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing
it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh
linux 5.2.
the code is
warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
open (SENDMAIL, $sendmailpath) || warn ("MAIL: Cannot open sendmail
at \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
print SENDMAIL ( "From: Eidos Web Password Assistant
passwordhelp\@".$dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname."\n".
"To: You ".$dbh-{param}-{csemail}."\n".
"Subject:
".$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordsubject}."\n\n".
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext1}.
$result[1].
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext2}.
($dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname).($dbh-{r}-uri()).
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext3}.
"\n.\n");
warn ("MAIL: Mail Sent okay!");
close (SENDMAIL);
I ditched the fail-result tests in desperation. :)
It tells me the mail has been sent okay (even when the failiure tests
were in place) but nothing. Not in the outgoing or incoming mail spools.
I tested this code as a vanilla cgi script, and it worked fine. I have
*no* idea why it won't work under mod_perl.
Anyone else had similar problems (or solutions :),
or should I Just Shut Up?
Hmmm, a funny way to ask questions... let me try too: Should we answer the
question or Just Shut Up? :)
Anyway, how do you know it's a mod_perl problem? How do you know it has
something to do with mail? Oh, yeah the mail has never reached the
destination... Did you try to print out what you send instead of piping it
to sendmail? Check that the generated headers are correct ones...
Other than that, why not to use Net::SMTP, which verifies each command and
you can arrange your code to die or warn on failure to send some field,
since it talks directly to the smtp server... take a look at the simple
send_mail() implemented that way (BTW, it's much faster and lighter than
sendmail, but this is off-topic...)
http://www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC/works/scripts/mail-lib.pl
Hope this helps...
___
Stas Bekman mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]www.singlesheaven.com/stas
Perl,CGI,Apache,Linux,Web,Java,PC at www.singlesheaven.com/stas/TULARC
www.apache.org www.perl.com == www.modperl.com || perl.apache.org
single o- + single o-+ = singlesheavenhttp://www.singlesheaven.com
Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...
Dave Mee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hello, mod_perloids.
I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing
it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh
linux 5.2.
the code is
warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
open (SENDMAIL, $sendmailpath) || warn ("MAIL: Cannot open sendmail
at \"".$sendmailpath."\"");
Let's assume that $sendmailpath is a pipe ("|/usr/lib/sendmail ...")
print SENDMAIL ( "From: Eidos Web Password Assistant
passwordhelp\@".$dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname."\n".
"To: You ".$dbh-{param}-{csemail}."\n".
"Subject:
".$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordsubject}."\n\n".
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext1}.
$result[1].
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext2}.
($dbh-{r}-server-server_hostname).($dbh-{r}-uri()).
$EidosParser::locale{mailsendpasswordtext3}.
"\n.\n");
warn ("MAIL: Mail Sent okay!");
close (SENDMAIL);
I ditched the fail-result tests in desperation. :)
It tells me the mail has been sent okay (even when the failiure tests
were in place) but nothing.
The essential failure-test is missing. Only during close() do you find
out if there was a problem writing to the pipe when the last (possibly
only) bufferful of data gets flushed to it.
Not in the outgoing or incoming mail spools.
I tested this code as a vanilla cgi script, and it worked fine. I have
*no* idea why it won't work under mod_perl.
There shouldn't be much difference. Maybe some obscure environment
variable, or your cgi is suexec'ed to a different user?
--
Frank Cringle, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
voice: (+49 2304) 467101; fax: 943357
Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Stas Bekman wrote: [...] Other than that, why not to use Net::SMTP, which verifies each command and you can arrange your code to die or warn on failure to send some field, since it talks directly to the smtp server... take a look at the simple send_mail() implemented that way (BTW, it's much faster and lighter than sendmail, but this is off-topic...) Eh, if the mail server is still sendmail it doesn't make much of a difference how you connect to it. I prefer Net::SMTP too though. And you're right, it's not really on-topic. - ask -- ask bjoern hansen - http://www.netcetera.dk/~ask/ more than 50M impressions per day, http://valueclick.com
