Mail::Transport::Mailx(3pm)    User Contributed Perl Documentation    Mail::Transport::Mailx(3pm)



NAME
       Mail::Transport::Mailx - transmit messages using external mailx program

INHERITANCE
        Mail::Transport::Mailx
          is a Mail::Transport::Send
          is a Mail::Transport
          is a Mail::Reporter

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

DESCRIPTION
       Implements mail transport using the external programs 'mailx', "Mail", or 'mail'.  When
       instantiated, the mailer will look for any of these binaries in specific system
       directories, and the first program found is taken.

       WARNING: There are many security issues with mail and mailx. DO NOT USE these commands to
       send messages which contains data derived from any external source!!!

       Under Linux, freebsd, and bsdos the "mail", "Mail", and "mailx" names are just links to
       the same binary.  The implementation is very primitive, pre-MIME standard,  what may cause
       many headers to be lost.  For these platforms (and probably for other platforms as well),
       you can better not use this transport mechanism.

       Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Transport::Send.

METHODS
       Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Transport::Send.

   Constructors
       Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Transport::Send.

       Mail::Transport::Mailx->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>
             style                        <autodetect>
             timeout     Mail::Transport  120
             trace       Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
             username    Mail::Transport  undef
             via         Mail::Transport  'mailx'

           executable => FILENAME
           hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY
           interval => SECONDS
           log => LEVEL
           password => STRING
           port => INTEGER
           proxy => PATH
           retry => NUMBER|undef
           style => 'BSD'|'RFC822'
             There are two version of the "mail" program.  The newest accepts RFC822 messages,
             and automagically collect information about where the message is to be send to.  The
             BSD style mail command predates MIME, and expects lines which start with a '~'
             (tilde) to specify destinations and such.  This field is autodetect, however on some
             platforms both versions of "mail" can live (like various Linux distributions).

           timeout => SECONDS
           trace => LEVEL
           username => STRING
           via => CLASS|NAME

   Sending mail
       Extends "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send.

       $obj->destinations( $message, [$address|ARRAY] )
           Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

       $obj->putContent($message, $fh, %options)
           Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

       $obj->send($message, %options)
           Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

       $obj->trySend($message, %options)

   Server connection
       Extends "Server connection" in Mail::Transport::Send.

       $obj->findBinary( $name, [@directories] )
           Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

       $obj->remoteHost()
           Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

       $obj->retry()
           Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

   Error handling
       Extends "Error handling" in Mail::Transport::Send.

       $obj->AUTOLOAD()
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->addReport($object)
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level,
       $callback] )
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->errors()
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->logPriority($level)
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority($level)
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->logSettings()
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->notImplemented()
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->report( [$level] )
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->reportAll( [$level] )
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->trace( [$level] )
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->warnings()
           Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

   Cleanup
       Extends "Cleanup" in Mail::Transport::Send.

       $obj->DESTROY()
           Inherited, see "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

DIAGNOSTICS
       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()), 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.

       Error: Sending via mailx mailer $program failed: $! ($?)
           Mailx (in some shape: there are many different implementations) did start accepting
           messages, but did not succeed sending it.

SEE ALSO
       This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.117, built on August 24, 2014.
       Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE
       Copyrights 2001-2014 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



perl v5.20.0                                2014-08-24                Mail::Transport::Mailx(3pm)