Scripting Email

[talexb-SBdzbUvMQDunS0EtXVNi6w at public.gmane.org]

Hi,

Perl's Mail::Sendmail has always worked well for me. About all you have to
set is your SMTP server name.

Alex

On Thu, 4 Mar 2004, William O'Higgins wrote:

> I would like to be able to send email programmatically (via script and at
> or cron).  When one looks at "command line email" in Google you'll see a
> lot of stuff about `mail`.  My MTA is just forwarding stuff to a smarthost
> (leave off for the moment that the "smart" host is actually a flaming
> ninnyhammer) and so `mail` doesn't help me.
>
> I've tried using Perl and Net::SMTP, but it provides insufficient
> control over headers, and gets flagged as spam.
>
> Is there a program that might help me, or should I try to script a
> telnet session, or do this in Perl with Net::Socket.  Any suggestions
> welcome.  Thanks.
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> yours,
>
> William
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