On Wed, 23 Oct 2002, Lance Hoffmeyer wrote:
The problem is:
> open(FILE,">eltonjohn.txt");
Here, you open FILE for writing, but then...
> [snip]
> $smtp->datasend(FILE);
Here you try to read from it.
That won't work in any case; you can't read from a writing file handle.
But you also have other problems. From perldoc Net::Cmd:
datasend ( DATA )
Send data to the remote server, converting LF to CRLF.
Any line starting with a '.' will be prefixed with
another '.'. "DATA" may be an array or a reference to
an array.
the datasend() method doesn't take a filehandle, it takes either an array
or a reference to an array.
Here's a better method:
#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use WWW::Search;
use Net::SMTP;
my @lines;
push(@lines, "Results of a search for Elton John MFSL on ebay\n\n\n\n");
my $oSearch = new WWW::Search('Ebay');
my $sQuery = WWW::Search::escape_query("Elton John MFSL");
$oSearch->native_query($sQuery);
while (my $oResult = $oSearch->next_result())
{ push @lines, $oResult->url . "\n" ; }
my $mailsender = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]';
my $mailserver = 'mail.augustmail.com';
sub Email{
#passing the parameters
my ( $subject, $mailto ) = @_;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($mailserver);
$smtp->mail($mailsender);
$smtp->to($mailto);
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("Subject: $subject\n");
$smtp->datasend("To: $mailto\n");
$smtp->datasend("From: $mailsender\n\n");
$smtp->datasend(@lines);
$smtp->datasend();
$smtp->quit;
}
Email('Elton John Ebay Results','[EMAIL PROTECTED]');
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