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Posted to embperl@perl.apache.org by John Scanlon <sc...@rci.rutgers.edu> on 2001/06/29 17:44:07 UTC
Using Mail modules with Embperl
We've tried to use both the Mail::Sendmail and Mail::Sender modules with
Embperl, and have come across the same difficulty with both: a script will
work correctly once (i.e. will send mail out through an SMTP server) and
then will not work again until Apache is re-booted. Can anyone shed some
light, or offer suggestions? We're using Embperl 1.3b3, Apache 1.3.12 and
Mod_Perl 1.23.
Thanks,
John Scanlon
Rutgers University
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Re: Using Mail modules with Embperl
Posted by Akshay Arora <ak...@5vs1.com>.
I've had quite a bit of success with the MIME::Lite module. It isn't
installed with Perl, but CPAN has no problem installing it.
It has a similar syntax to Mail::Sender. I haven't tried sending
attachments with it, but it seems like that MIME::Lite might be able to
do that as well.
-Akshay
Neil Gunton wrote:
>
> John Scanlon wrote:
> >
> > We've tried to use both the Mail::Sendmail and Mail::Sender modules with
> > Embperl, and have come across the same difficulty with both: a script will
> > work correctly once (i.e. will send mail out through an SMTP server) and
> > then will not work again until Apache is re-booted. Can anyone shed some
> > light, or offer suggestions? We're using Embperl 1.3b3, Apache 1.3.12 and
> > Mod_Perl 1.23.
>
> I use Mail::Sender in my community website without any problems. The
> code looks something like this:
>
> use Mail::Sender;
> $sender = new Mail::Sender ({smtp => "mail.nilspace.com"});
> $sender->MailMsg ({from => 'guestbook@crazyguyonabike.com',
> replyto => "$message->{name} <$message->{email}>",
> to => $author->{email},
> subject => "Guestbook: $author->{tourname}",
> msg => "$text\n\n$extra"
> });
> undef $sender;
>
> Whenever someone posts a message in a journal guestbook, the message is
> also sent by email to the author of the journal. This is what's
> happening here.
>
> I don't have any special httpd.conf settings to cater to Mail::Sender,
> so let me know if this code is any different from the way you do it...
> perhaps the 'undef $sender' makes a difference for subsequent calls.
>
> HTH
>
> -Neil
>
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Re: Using Mail modules with Embperl
Posted by Neil Gunton <ne...@nilspace.com>.
John Scanlon wrote:
>
> We've tried to use both the Mail::Sendmail and Mail::Sender modules with
> Embperl, and have come across the same difficulty with both: a script will
> work correctly once (i.e. will send mail out through an SMTP server) and
> then will not work again until Apache is re-booted. Can anyone shed some
> light, or offer suggestions? We're using Embperl 1.3b3, Apache 1.3.12 and
> Mod_Perl 1.23.
I use Mail::Sender in my community website without any problems. The
code looks something like this:
use Mail::Sender;
$sender = new Mail::Sender ({smtp => "mail.nilspace.com"});
$sender->MailMsg ({from => 'guestbook@crazyguyonabike.com',
replyto => "$message->{name} <$message->{email}>",
to => $author->{email},
subject => "Guestbook: $author->{tourname}",
msg => "$text\n\n$extra"
});
undef $sender;
Whenever someone posts a message in a journal guestbook, the message is
also sent by email to the author of the journal. This is what's
happening here.
I don't have any special httpd.conf settings to cater to Mail::Sender,
so let me know if this code is any different from the way you do it...
perhaps the 'undef $sender' makes a difference for subsequent calls.
HTH
-Neil
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Re: Using Mail modules with Embperl
Posted by Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>.
> Yes, we are running on Windows.
The only solution, due to the socket problem under mod_perl and windows, I
have found, is to start an extra process that acutally send the mail. For
example via system:
system ("perl mail.pl") ;
(of course you need a way how to pass the mail data you want to send, either
via the command line or via stdin)
> Thanks for the information, and I'll take
> a look at HTML::Embperl::Mail
>
That has the same problem with sockets under windows (i.e. it works only
once), but you can use it in such a programm like I suggest above
Gerald
> John
>
> On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Gerald Richter wrote:
>
> > > We've tried to use both the Mail::Sendmail and Mail::Sender modules
with
> > > Embperl, and have come across the same difficulty with both: a script
will
> > > work correctly once (i.e. will send mail out through an SMTP server)
and
> > > then will not work again until Apache is re-booted. Can anyone shed
some
> > > light, or offer suggestions? We're using Embperl 1.3b3, Apache 1.3.12
and
> > > Mod_Perl 1.23.
> > >
> >
> > Are you running on Windows ? On windows I know about problem with
sockets,
> > which only works once under mod_perl/Apache, which would explain your
> > problem. On Unix I use successfully Net::SMTP to send mail. Maybe you
try
> > HTML::Embperl::Mail (which is part of Embperl distribution), does this
work
> > for you ?
> >
> > Gerald
> >
> > P.S. I am out of office for the next week, so I am not able to answer
before
> > july, 8.
> >
> > -------------------------------------------------------------
> > Gerald Richter ecos electronic communication services gmbh
> > Internetconnect * Webserver/-design/-datenbanken * Consulting
> >
> > Post: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim b. Mainz
> > E-Mail: richter@ecos.de Voice: +49 6133 925131
> > WWW: http://www.ecos.de Fax: +49 6133 925152
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Re: Using Mail modules with Embperl
Posted by John Scanlon <sc...@rci.rutgers.edu>.
Yes, we are running on Windows. Thanks for the information, and I'll take
a look at HTML::Embperl::Mail
John
On Sat, 30 Jun 2001, Gerald Richter wrote:
> > We've tried to use both the Mail::Sendmail and Mail::Sender modules with
> > Embperl, and have come across the same difficulty with both: a script will
> > work correctly once (i.e. will send mail out through an SMTP server) and
> > then will not work again until Apache is re-booted. Can anyone shed some
> > light, or offer suggestions? We're using Embperl 1.3b3, Apache 1.3.12 and
> > Mod_Perl 1.23.
> >
>
> Are you running on Windows ? On windows I know about problem with sockets,
> which only works once under mod_perl/Apache, which would explain your
> problem. On Unix I use successfully Net::SMTP to send mail. Maybe you try
> HTML::Embperl::Mail (which is part of Embperl distribution), does this work
> for you ?
>
> Gerald
>
> P.S. I am out of office for the next week, so I am not able to answer before
> july, 8.
>
> -------------------------------------------------------------
> Gerald Richter ecos electronic communication services gmbh
> Internetconnect * Webserver/-design/-datenbanken * Consulting
>
> Post: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim b. Mainz
> E-Mail: richter@ecos.de Voice: +49 6133 925131
> WWW: http://www.ecos.de Fax: +49 6133 925152
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Re: Using Mail modules with Embperl
Posted by Gerald Richter <ri...@ecos.de>.
> We've tried to use both the Mail::Sendmail and Mail::Sender modules with
> Embperl, and have come across the same difficulty with both: a script will
> work correctly once (i.e. will send mail out through an SMTP server) and
> then will not work again until Apache is re-booted. Can anyone shed some
> light, or offer suggestions? We're using Embperl 1.3b3, Apache 1.3.12 and
> Mod_Perl 1.23.
>
Are you running on Windows ? On windows I know about problem with sockets,
which only works once under mod_perl/Apache, which would explain your
problem. On Unix I use successfully Net::SMTP to send mail. Maybe you try
HTML::Embperl::Mail (which is part of Embperl distribution), does this work
for you ?
Gerald
P.S. I am out of office for the next week, so I am not able to answer before
july, 8.
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Gerald Richter ecos electronic communication services gmbh
Internetconnect * Webserver/-design/-datenbanken * Consulting
Post: Tulpenstrasse 5 D-55276 Dienheim b. Mainz
E-Mail: richter@ecos.de Voice: +49 6133 925131
WWW: http://www.ecos.de Fax: +49 6133 925152
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