Lynn,
If you are interested in an alternative tool to send mail than postie, you
may want to look at Mail::Sender which is what we tend to recommend to
user's of our NT Scripts. Although if anyone has more up to date
information on the best Mailer to use for NT, I'd be glad to hear it and
update our documents. :)
One thing you should also be careful about is that programs that require
command-line input to pass parameters are really quite dangerous
potentially so we tend to shy away from them. I don't know if Postie is
like that, but Blat definitely is. Of course, you can use the array context
system() call as well as taintmode but it is still risky.
In addition, launching an extra process on windows (especially) is quite
expensive and slow. So your feeling on using SMTP is good.
If you are interested in a fairly generic API to send mail from CGI
scripts, all our newer scripts come with Extropia::Core::Mail API which
supports drivers for blat, Mail::Sender,
NTSendmail and Sendmail natively with the exact same calling API.
We did this because the state of mail packages out there on CPAN seem a
somewhat disjointed (especially with poor support for NT). But eventually
should they become better we'd end up replacing our API with theirs (the hope).
The modules for doing this come with our current WebCal and WebDB
distributions. We try quite hard to make sure they work under NT, so most
of the stuff should be NT compatible.
The usage is quite simple
use Extropia::Core::Mail;
my $mailer = Extropia::Core::Mail->create(
-TYPE => 'MailSender',
-SMTP_ADDRESS => 'something'
);
$mailer->send(-FROM => $from, -TO => $to, -SUBJECT => $subj, -BODY => $body);
And that's pretty much it. I am pretty sure this will work well on NT for you.
You can download Mail::Sender using PPM on your NT Server. So type
ppm
And then
install Mail-Sender
Note that the PPM package for Mail-Sender is not available for older Perl's
I think. But it definitely downloads fine for me on ActiveState Perl 5.6.1.
Anyway, I think Mail::Sender will be much easier for you (even if you
decide to use it natively) than Net::SMTP.
Later,
Gunther
At 01:15 PM 9/4/2001 -0700, Lynn Glessner wrote:
>Here is an interesting tidbit for anyone thinking of using the command line
>mail tool "postie" on Windows from their cgi script.
>
>I decided to send email through a system call to postie, just because postie
>is how I have always sent mail from the command line in Windows :) I
>couldn't figure out why I was getting a display error from IIS - it worked
>fine in a test script but not in my real script. Turns out postie was
>wanting to display a complaint about CGI, and I finally found this tidbit
>from the author of the utility:
>
>"To run Postie from a CGI program and get it to process command-line
>arguments properly you must first un-set the environment variable
>'GATEWAY_INTERFACE' or run the program without inheriting the parent CGI
>program's environment"
>
>In other words, use undef(ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE}); before executing your
>system command calling postie, and then all is well.
>
>Thought I would pass this on so no one else wastes time on the same thing, I
>only found one mention of it in my google web search and and none in my deja
>news search (or whateve it is called now) so it most not be a very popular
>way to go - or else people give up and do it another way.
>
>BTW, I looked at the NET:SMTP included with activeperl and didn't see how I
>could make the contents of a text file be the body of my message. If someone
>can tell me how that is possible, I would prefer to use that method in the
>future. (I'm avoiding installing any more modules than what were included.)
>
>
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