[WindyCity-pm] Sending emails from perl.

[Richard Reina]

I would like to send mail via a perl script.  I find sendmail pretty overwhelming. So I was relieved when I found the the module Mail::Sendmail.  I downloaded it, installed it and put in my yahoo SMTP server in the appropriate config file as SBC yahoo is my ISP.  However, much to my dismay when I ran the test I got:

ok 1
Server set to: smtp.bizmail.yahoo.com
Sending...
MAIL FROM: error (530 authentication required - for help go to http://help.yahoo.com/help/us/bizmail/pop/pop-11.html)
!Error sending mail:

I didn't see any place to put my sbc-yahoo password.  Worse, I found his cryptic sentence under LIMITATIONS of Mail::Sendmail:

"No support for the SMTP AUTH extension."

Does this mean I can't use Mail::Sendmail since my SMTP server requires authentication, or do I just not know where to put it?

Does anyone know of outgoing SMTP server that I can use that does not require authentication?

Is there an easier way to send emails from perl on linux?

Thanks in advance for any help.

Richard




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