Re: Perl and Qmail

[Henning Brauer]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 08:44:56AM -0700, Greg White wrote:
 I'm not aware of any _reason_ you'd want to recieve mail in a Perl
 program -- that's what your MTA is there for.

Ever thought about Mailrobots? I've written tons of them - how do you think
all the domains get registered?


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Re: Perl and Qmail

[Christian Rotter]

Hi Frederik,

 I'm having some problems sending e-mail from within a perl program
 using qmail.

try opening a 'pipe' to qmail-inject and send your mail in

--
open(INJECTPIPE, | qmail-inject);

print all you info to the pipe
Bcc:
Cc:
From:
Reply-To:
Subject:
and the other stuff required
after that, the text of the mail

example:
print INJECTPIPE Subject:  . your Subject . \n;

then
close(INJECTPIPE);
--

works like a charm and is very fast :-)

that's for sending, receiving could be done by processing
$HOME/Maildir/new/* or doing the SMTP-handling yourself,
which I would try to avoid (qmail is better than you doing this :-)

hope this helps,

Chris

Re: Perl and Qmail

[Greg White]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2001 at 01:45:35PM -, Frederik Van Herterijck wrote:
 I'm having some problems sending e-mail from within a perl program 
 using qmail.
 
 Can someone tell me how I can easily send and receive mails in perl 
 using qmail. I'm trying and trying but nothing works. 
 Qmail works perfectly.

This isn't really a qmail question. Reply-to set appropriately.

Perl has nearly any way you can imagine to send mail.

1. Net::SMTP -- this is the one I prefer
2. using a pipe to qmail-inject (mentioned elsewhere in this thread)
3. using a pipe to the sendmail wrapper

are the best three, in order, IMHO.

I'm not aware of any _reason_ you'd want to recieve mail in a Perl
program -- that's what your MTA is there for.

-- 
Greg White

Re: Perl and Qmail

[eric]

- Original Message - 

[snip]

 
 I'm not aware of any _reason_ you'd want to recieve mail in a Perl
 program -- that's what your MTA is there for.
 

Using perl to create your own MUA, using perl to create an
autoresponder, blah, blah, blah..., using perl to grab the stuff
from your inbox and then process it.

Eric Calvert