Mail::Transport::Mailx - transmit messages using external mailx program

 Mail::Transport::Mailx
   is a Mail::Transport::Send
   is a Mail::Transport
   is a Mail::Reporter

 my $sender = Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(...);
 $sender->send($message);

Implements mail transport using the external programs CW'mailx', CWMail, or CW'mail'. When instantiated, the mailer will look for any of these binaries in specific system directories, and the first program found is taken.

WARNING: There are many security issues with mail and mailx. DO NOT USE these commands to send messages which contains data derived from any external source!!!

Under Linux, freebsd, and bsdos the CWmail, CWMail, and CWmailx names are just links to the same binary. The implementation is very primitive, pre-MIME standard, what may cause many headers to be lost. For these platforms (and probably for other platforms as well), you can better not use this transport mechanism.

Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(OPTIONS)

 Option      Defined in       Default       
 executable  L<Mail::Transport>  C<undef>      
 hostname    L<Mail::Transport>  C<'localhost'>
 interval    L<Mail::Transport>  C<30>         
 log         L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'> 
 password    L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 port        L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 proxy       L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 retry       L<Mail::Transport>  <false>       
 style                        <autodetect>  
 timeout     L<Mail::Transport>  C<120>        
 trace       L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'> 
 username    L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 via         L<Mail::Transport>  C<'mailx'>

$obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES]) See Sending mail in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS) See Sending mail in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS) See Sending mail in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

$obj->findBinary(NAME [, DIRECTORIES]) See Server connection in Mail::Transport

$obj->remoteHost See Server connection in Mail::Transport

$obj->retry See Server connection in Mail::Transport

$obj->AUTOLOAD See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport(OBJECT) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Transport::Mailx->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority(LEVEL) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report([LEVEL]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace([LEVEL]) See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings See Error handling in Mail::Reporter

$obj->DESTROY See Cleanup in Mail::Reporter

$obj->inGlobalDestruction See Cleanup in Mail::Reporter

Warning: Message has no destination

It was not possible to figure-out where the message is intended to go to.

Error: Package CW$package does not implement CW$method.

Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

Warning: Resent group does not specify a destination

The message which is sent is the result of a bounce (for instance created with Mail::Message::bounce()), and therefore starts with a CWReceived header field. With the CWbounce, the new destination(s) of the message are given, which should be included as CWResent-To, CWResent-Cc, and CWResent-Bcc.

The CWTo, CWCc, and CWBcc header information is only used if no CWReceived was found. That seems to be the best explanation of the RFC.

As alternative, you may also specify the CWto option to some of the senders (for instance Mail::Transport::SMTP::send(to) to overrule any information found in the message itself about the destination.

Error: Sending via mailx mailer CW$program failed: $! ($?)

Mailx (in some shape: there are many different implementations) did start accepting messages, but did not succeed sending it.

See the MailBox website at <http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/> for more details.

Distribution version 2.063. Written by Mark Overmeer (mark@overmeer.net). See the ChangeLog for other contributors.

Copyright (c) 2001-2003 by the author(s). All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.