Mail::Transport::Sendmail - transmit messages using external Sendmail program

 Mail::Transport::Sendmail
   is a Mail::Transport::Send
   is a Mail::Transport
   is a Mail::Reporter

 my $sender = Mail::Transport::Sendmail->new(...);
 $sender->send($message);

Implements mail transport using the external 'Sendmail' program. When instantiated, the mailer will look for the binary in specific system directories, and the first version found is taken.

Some people use Postfix as MTA. Postfix can be installed as replacement for Sendmail: is provides a program with the same name and options. So, this module supports postfix as well.

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->new(OPTIONS)

 -Option          --Defined in     --Default
  executable        Mail::Transport  undef
  hostname          Mail::Transport  'localhost'
  interval          Mail::Transport  30
  log               Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
  password          Mail::Transport  undef
  port              Mail::Transport  undef
  proxy             Mail::Transport  undef
  retry             Mail::Transport  <false>
  sendmail_options                   []
  timeout           Mail::Transport  120
  trace             Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
  username          Mail::Transport  undef
  via               Mail::Transport  'sendmail'

executable => FILENAME

hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY-OF-HOSTNAMES

interval => SECONDS

log => LEVEL

password => STRING

port => INTEGER

proxy => PATH

retry => NUMBER|undef

sendmail_options => ARRAY

Add to the command-line of the started sendmail MTU a list of separate words. So say [ '-f', $file ] and not [ "-f $file" ] , because the latter will be taken by sendmail as one word only.

timeout => SECONDS

trace => LEVEL

username => STRING

via => CLASS|NAME

$obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES])

See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS)

See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

 -Option          --Default
  sendmail_options  undef

sendmail_options => ARRAY

$obj->findBinary(NAME [, DIRECTORIES])

See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

$obj->remoteHost

See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

$obj->retry

See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

$obj->AUTOLOAD

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport(OBJECT)

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority(LEVEL)

Mail::Transport::Sendmail->logPriority(LEVEL)

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report([LEVEL])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll([LEVEL])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace([LEVEL])

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings

See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->DESTROY

See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->inGlobalDestruction

See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

Error: Errors when closing sendmail mailer $program: $!

The was no problem starting the sendmail mail transfer agent, but for some specific reason the message could not be handled correctly.

Warning: Message has no destination

It was not possible to figure-out where the message is intended to go to.

Error: Package $package does not implement $method.

Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably inform the author of the package.

Warning: Resent group does not specify a destination

The message which is sent is the result of a bounce (for instance created with Mail::Message::bounce() ("Constructing a message" in Mail::Message::Construct::Bounce)), and therefore starts with a Received header field. With the bounce, the new destination(s) of the message are given, which should be included as Resent-To, Resent-Cc, and Resent-Bcc.

The To, Cc, and Bcc header information is only used if no Received was found. That seems to be the best explanation of the RFC.

As alternative, you may also specify the to option to some of the senders (for instance Mail::Transport::SMTP::send(to) to overrule any information found in the message itself about the destination.

This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.098, built on March 17, 2011. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

Copyrights 2001-2011 by Mark Overmeer. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. See http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html