[San-Diego-pm] Mail::Sender

[Chris Grau]

On Sat, May 12, 2007 at 10:31:26AM -0700, Joel Fentin wrote:
> I'm looking for a way of emailing with attachments. Since Mail::Sender
> is already installed in my account, this where I started. I've been
> running lots of variations of the below. They run to the end without
> errors. But they don't send any emails.

I've never used this particular module, but my brief scan of the
documentation tells me that you appear to be using it correctly.

> my $sender = new Mail::Sender({
> smtp => 'smtp.nethere.net',
> from => 'avocado at nethere.com',
> }) or die "Error in mailing : $Mail::Sender::Error\n";

I assume the SMTP server is correct.  What happens when you try to speak
to it via telnet?  It may be fine, but this is where I always start with
mail problems.

> $sender->OpenMultipart({
>      to => 'joel at fentin.com',
>      subject => 'Testing 3',
> });
> 
> $sender->Body;
> $sender->SendLineEnc( 'This is a send attachment test.' );
> $sender->SendFile({
>      description => 'Raw Data File',
>      encoding => '7BIT',
>      file => 'IRF510.pdf',
> });
> $sender->Close;

Have you tried checking the results of each method call?  According to
the documentation:

    Returns the Mail::Sender object if successfull, negative error code
    if not, zero if $sender was not connected at all. The zero usualy
    means that the Open/OpenMultipart failed and you did not test its
    return value.

Looks like you can configure the Mail::Sender object to die on error.
That might be useful for debugging.

-- 
Chris Grau
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