Using MIME::Lite module
You could write your own email client using MIME:Lite perl module. You can download this module from
MIME-Lite-3.01.tar.gz and install it on your either machine Windows or Linux/Unix. To install it follow the following simple steps:
$tar xvfz MIME-Lite-3.01.tar.gz
$cd MIME-Lite-3.01
$perl Makefile.PL
$make
$make install
That's it and you will have MIME::Lite module installed on your machine. Now you are ready to send your email with simple scripts explained below.
SENDING A PLAIN MESSAGE
Now following is a script which will take care of sending email to the given email ID:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Lite;
$to = 'abcd@gmail.com';
$cc = 'efgh@mail.com';
$from = 'webmaster@yourdomain.com';
$subject = 'Test Email';
$message = 'This is test email sent by Perl Script';
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
From => $from,
To => $to,
Cc => $cc,
Subject => $subject,
Data => $message
);
$msg->send;
print "Email Sent Successfully\n";
SENDING AN HTML MESSAGE
If you want to send HTML formatted email using sendmail then you simply need to add Content-type: text/html\n in the header part of the email. Following is the script which will take care of sending HTML formatted email:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Lite;
$to = 'abcd@gmail.com';
$cc = 'efgh@mail.com';
$from = 'webmaster@yourdomain.com';
$subject = 'Test Email';
$message = '<h1>This is test email sent by Perl Script</h1>';
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
From => $from,
To => $to,
Cc => $cc,
Subject => $subject,
Data => $message
);
$msg->attr("content-type" => "text/html");
$msg->send;
print "Email Sent Successfully\n";
SENDING AN ATTACHEMENT
If you want to send an attachement then following script serve the purpose:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Lite;
$to = 'abcd@gmail.com';
$cc = 'efgh@mail.com';
$from = 'webmaster@yourdomain.com';
$subject = 'Test Email';
$message = 'This is test email sent by Perl Script';
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
From => $from,
To => $to,
Cc => $cc,
Subject => $subject,
Type => 'multipart/mixed'
);
# Add your text message.
$msg->attach(Type => 'text',
Data => $message
);
# Specify your file as attachement.
$msg->attach(Type => 'image/gif',
Path => '/tmp/logo.gif',
Filename => 'logo.gif',
Disposition => 'attachment'
);
$msg->send;
print "Email Sent Successfully\n";
You can attache as many as files you like in your email using attach() method.
Using SMTP Server
If your machine is not running an email server then you can use any other email server available at remote location. But to use any other email server you will need to have an id, its password, URL etc. Once you have all the required information, you simple need to provide that information in send()method as follows:
$msg->send('smtp', "smtp.myisp.net", AuthUser=>"id", AuthPass=>"password" );
You can contact your email server administrator to have above used information and if a user id and password is not already available then your administrator can create it in minutes.
