Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-17 Thread Peter Karman
On 09/07/2007 04:27 PM, Ricardo SIGNES wrote: * Email::Stuff * Email::Simple / Email::MIME + Email::Send * Mail::Message fwiw, I had been using Mail::Sendmail for years without complaint, till I discovered today I needed to send UTF-8 happy mail and could not (the feature may be

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-13 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-12T23:44:36] Perhaps you or someone should publish a similar series of columns (unless they already exist) that does the same? As someone who is happy with MIME::Lite, blissfully unaware of its problems and shortcomings and jammed with work, I'm not

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-13 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Ron Savage [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-13T02:07:31] o OK, so it's been superseded, but so what? That's no reason in an of itself to change. As long as it works for you, keep using it. [ ... ] o But, since switching is comparatively easy, you might as well do it. But my point is - switch

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-13 Thread Jason Purdy
Karen wrote: I wish there were more, and in a centralized place. The Perl 5 Wiki has tentative movement in that direction: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?recommended_cpan_modules I didn't know about this - I just published a CGI::Application page:

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-13 Thread Karen
On 9/13/07, Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I didn't know about this - I just published a CGI::Application page: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?cgi_application Which is linked to from here: http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl5/index.cgi?web_frameworks When more people

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-12 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-10T18:38:13] [to the MIME::Lite maintainer] Maybe some notes in the MIME::Lite docs about its shortcomings, or requests for help fixing them, are in order? I'll get around to it one of these days. In the meantime

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-12 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-10T09:17:07] We use MIME::Lite here a lot w/o any problems and certainly without thinking it's horrendous. I will say that we don't do a whole lot of email volume, but there's something about its API that resonates with my style of coding, moreso

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-12 Thread Mark Fuller
* George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-10T18:38:13] Maybe some notes in the MIME::Lite docs about its shortcomings, or requests for help fixing them, are in order? I agree. I feel blindsided to learn I shouldn't be using MIME:Lite (after dozens of uses over the years) in the way I just

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-12 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* Mark Fuller [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-12T22:54:33] * George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-10T18:38:13] Maybe some notes in the MIME::Lite docs about its shortcomings, or requests for help fixing them, are in order? I agree. I feel blindsided to learn I shouldn't be using

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-12 Thread Jason Purdy
Thanks for the elaboration, Ricardo. I will gladly admit I didn't spend a whole lot of time digging into the API docs, so a lot of my points were made that cursory perspective. Certainly not as someone really invested in the world of email as you are. I find this similar to my experience

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-12 Thread Karen
On 9/12/07, Jason Purdy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Perhaps you or someone should publish a similar series of columns (unless they already exist) that does the same? As someone who is happy with MIME::Lite, blissfully unaware of its problems and shortcomings and jammed with work, I'm not

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-10 Thread George Hartzell
Jason Purdy writes: This is probably going to start a firestorm, but it's important to have an opposing view voiced so no one thinks MIME::Lite is fit to be tarred feathered. [...] Thanks for speaking up. I felt kind of silly using something who's maintainer things is problematic, but

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-07 Thread Ricardo SIGNES
* George Hartzell [EMAIL PROTECTED] [2007-09-06T19:43:33] Have you looked at MIME::Lite or Net::SMTP, which make it pretty darn easy to send a message? If they're not what you need, tell us why and maybe someone can make a better suggestion. Hi, I'm MIME::Lite's maintainer. Please don't use

Re: [cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-07 Thread Jay Varner
Thanks George. I don't have a problem with Mailform, I guess I lack a bit of understanding here. I'm very new to CGI::App. I did have some trouble getting Mailform to work, but I think I was messing up the smtp stuff (my bad, not Mailform's). Anyway, I was generally looking for something more

[cgiapp] Emailing Results?

2007-09-06 Thread Jay Varner
Hello, I'm not sure why I can't wrap my head around this and get it to work but I'm trying to have a runmode use sendmail to email results from a form. Basically, say someone signs up for something via a web form. I want the info entered to both go to the database and send out a confirmation