hello,
we need to use the easiest solution, if possible just use a perl module, to
be able to send automated emails on an Ubuntu server. The scenario is this:
we ran a cron job, and say we would like to send a message after
completion, to a certain for example gmail account. The ideal would be to
I've always used this:
http://search.cpan.org/~markov/MailTools-2.13/lib/Mail/Mailer.pod
On 11/19/2014 09:22 AM, Sergio Letuche wrote:
ok this is what i asked, could a mail be sent without mailx been installed,
thank you
2014-11-19 16:19 GMT+02:00 PHILLIPS M.E. m.e.phill...@durham.ac.uk
In the past I've also done it without using a module by just doing a very bare
bones Net::SMTP session if I remember right. That's included in perl in most
recent versions if I remember right. (I'd have to dig around to find where
I've used it, it's rare as in most cases I prefer the approach
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:19:26PM +, PHILLIPS M.E. wrote:
open (MAIL, |-, '/bin/mailx', '-s', $subject, @addresses)
|| die Failed to e-mail report: $!\n;
what's the point of using perl then?
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Marc Chantreux,
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i do not object to any approach suggested, all are welcome
2014-11-19 16:46 GMT+02:00 Marc Chantreux m...@unistra.fr:
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:19:26PM +, PHILLIPS M.E. wrote:
open (MAIL, |-, '/bin/mailx', '-s', $subject, @addresses)
|| die Failed to e-mail report: $!\n;
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:19:26PM +, PHILLIPS M.E. wrote:
open (MAIL, |-, '/bin/mailx', '-s', $subject, @addresses)
|| die Failed to e-mail report: $!\n;
what's the point of using perl then?
There's more than one way to do it.
If mailx is already installed and configured
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 04:47:59PM +0200, Sergio Letuche wrote:
i do not object to any approach suggested, all are welcome
based on my own experience (experience feedback is something i expect
when i ask something in a list):
* don't use perl when i don't need it
(when it's about sending
On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:51:58PM +, PHILLIPS M.E. wrote:
If mailx is already installed and configured then this allows you to
send your e-mail from your Perl script without installing other
modules. I have sometimes had to use servers where installing extra
modules from CPAN was not
