Mail::Transport::Send - send a message

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

 Mail::Transport::Send is extended by
   Mail::Transport::Exim
   Mail::Transport::Mailx
   Mail::Transport::Qmail
   Mail::Transport::SMTP
   Mail::Transport::Sendmail

 my $message = Mail::Message->new(...);

 # Some extensions implement sending:
 $message->send;
 $message->send(via => 'sendmail');

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

Send a message to the destinations as specified in the header. The CWMail::Transport::Send module is capable of autodetecting which of the following modules work on your system; you may simply call CWsend without CWvia options to get a message transported.

* Mail::Transport::Sendmail

Use sendmail to process and deliver the mail. This requires the CWsendmail program to be installed on your system. Whether this is an original sendmail, or a replacement from Postfix does matter.

* Mail::Transport::Exim

Use CWexim to distribute the message.

* Mail::Transport::Qmail

Use CWqmail-inject to distribute the message.

* Mail::Transport::SMTP

In this case, Perl is handling mail transport on its own. This is less desired but more portable than sending with sendmail or qmail. The advantage is that this sender is environment independent, and easier to configure. However, there is no daemon involved which means that your program will wait until the message is delivered, and the message is lost when your program is interrupted during delivery (which may take hours to complete).

* Mail::Transport::Mailx

Use the external CWmail, CWmailx, or CWMail programs to send the message. Usually, the result is poor, because some versions of these programs do not support MIME headers. Besides, these programs are known to have exploitable security breaches.

Mail::Transport::Send->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>       
 timeout     L<Mail::Transport>  C<120>        
 trace       L<Mail::Reporter>  C<'WARNINGS'> 
 username    L<Mail::Transport>  undef         
 via         L<Mail::Transport>  C<'sendmail'>

$obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES]) Determine the destination for this message. If a valid ADDRESS is defined, this is used to overrule the addresses within the message. If the ADDRESS is CWundef it is ignored. If no ADDRESS is specified, the message is scanned for resent groups (see Mail::Message::Head::Complete::resentGroups()). The addresses found in the first (is latest added) group are used. If no resent groups are found, the normal CWTo, CWCc, and CWBcc lines are taken.

$obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS) Print the content of the MESSAGE to the FILEHANDLE.

 Option       Defined in       Default
 body_only                     <false>
 undisclosed                   <false>

$obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS) Transmit the MESSAGE, which may be anything what can be coerced into a Mail::Message, so including Mail::Internet and MIME::Entity messages. It returns true when the transmission was successfully completed.

 Option    Defined in       Default                                   
 interval                   L<new(interval)|Mail::Transport/"METHODS">
 retry                      L<new(retry)|Mail::Transport/"METHODS">   
 to                         C<undef>

$obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS) Try to send the message. This will return true if successful, and false in case some problems where detected. The CW$? contains the exit status of the command which was started.

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

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Transport::Send->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: Transporters of type CW$class cannot send.

The Mail::Transport object of the specified type can not send messages, but only receive message.

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.