Thanks Frank,
Actually it was reading about Mime::Lite::TT::HTML on your excellent
tutorial which inspired the question!
I have a framework similar to TT and the like, so I'm thinking of
creating something like the above module which handles all the Unicode
stuff, and which allows subclassing for use with different templating
systems and frameworks. Something like
Mime::Lite::Template::<your_framework_here>
I've finally sorted myself out with a PAUSE account so I'll be scouting
around for the ideal namespace at some point. I'll be discussing
off-list with Jonathan Vanasco so do butt in if you're keen to contribute.
I like your idea of submitting it to a different mp process, might well
be some mileage there - an email submission module with subclasses for
different submission methods perhaps. I was using Net::SMTP to send to
a local relay, but found it could get stuck on DNS lookups for address
verification.
cheers
John
Frank Wiles wrote:
On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:51:18 +0100
John ORourke <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi folks,
I'm wondering what modules people use for sending email? At the
moment I'm using MIME::Lite but I'm doing several things myself which
a bigger module might do for me:
- header encoding - I can't find any modules which will Q- or
B-encode headers that have the UTF-8 flag set
- UTF-8 detection on the body to set mime type
- sending with feedback - I'm using Net::SMTP so I can capture
result codes and give a variety of error messages instead of just
'failed'. Currently the biggest prob with this is potentially
delaying page delivery due to timeouts.
Not sure that this helps with your UTF issues, but I've recently
started using MIME::Lite::TT and MIME::Lite::TT::HTML and love
them. Wrote a quick tutorial on using them at:
http://www.revsys.com/writings/perl/sending-email-with-perl.html
As others have pointed out you can delay page loading by using
Net::SMTP to a remote system. However, if you say have 5
web servers and one SMTP server on your network, there shouldn't
be any real delay. It's when you have to connect up to
smtp.distant-other-country.com that you'll run into serious
problems.
Safest thing to do is submit your message to another process
in mp and have it handle the actual sending, returning errors,
etc. Be it in a queue in some DB or just a simple daemon that
handles it.
Hope this helps.
