At 06:33 PM 3/17/00 +0100, Riccardo 'Rojelio' Brigo wrote:
> I experienced a problem using Perl's sockets for a SMTP transaction: it
>seems that every string I send to the socket is appended to last message
>received by the server.
> For example, I receive the usual "220-Sendmail....." message, I send my
>"HELO hostname" command and what is really sent is "220-Sendmail......HELO
>hostname".
> I read that this problems derives by the fact that Perl considers sockets
>just as files, which is true under Unix but not under VMS. Given this,
>still I don't know how to solve it. Is there a simple way to empty the
>outgoing-buffer before sending my messages?
Basically don't use stdio for sockets, which means no <> or print. Instead
use sysread and syswrite instead.
For mail stuff you're probably best off using Net::SMTP anyway, as it
already takes care of the nasty stuff and understands the extended SMPT
stuff and all.
Dan
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