Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-27 Thread Gunther Birznieks
The advantage of using sendmail is [1] a centralised MTA config. [2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg automatic resilience based on MX record rerouting can be nice. Although in a mod_perl situation, I

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-27 Thread Robin Berjon
At 14:02 27/10/1999 -0400, Gunther Birznieks wrote: The advantage of using sendmail is [1] a centralised MTA config. [2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg automatic resilience based on MX record

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-27 Thread Matt Sergeant
On Wed, 27 Oct 1999, Robin Berjon wrote: At 14:02 27/10/1999 -0400, Gunther Birznieks wrote: The advantage of using sendmail is [1] a centralised MTA config. [2] Graceful handling of problems and requeueing of messages if the SMTP server specified by Net::SMTP would normally be down. eg

Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-26 Thread Dave Mee
Hello, mod_perloids. I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh linux 5.2. the code is warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sendmailpath."\""); open (SENDMAIL, $sendmailpath)

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-26 Thread Stas Bekman
Hello, mod_perloids. I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh linux 5.2. the code is warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is \"".$sendmailpath."\""); open (SENDMAIL,

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-26 Thread Frank D. Cringle
Dave Mee [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Hello, mod_perloids. I'm having a gutfull of trouble sending mail under mod_perl. I'm doing it by the books, to wit, the cookbook and the bigbirdie book, under rh linux 5.2. the code is warn ("MAIL: Opening sendmail... path is

Re: Trouble sending mail under modperl...

1999-10-26 Thread Ask Bjoern Hansen
On Tue, 26 Oct 1999, Stas Bekman wrote: [...] Other than that, why not to use Net::SMTP, which verifies each command and you can arrange your code to die or warn on failure to send some field, since it talks directly to the smtp server... take a look at the simple send_mail() implemented