Re: [MacPerl] smtp

["Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>]

At 10:11 PM +0100 1/5/99, Steven Vanlangenaeker wrote:

} Does anybody know how to use smtp via perl besides installing mailtools and
} using the standard things included in perl. It would seem that the perl mail
} tools causes crashes our our computers resulting in dns timeouts etc
} etc.....
}
} Wha t I noticed was, when using mailtools our dns server received about a
} hundred different queries. I got internetconfig configured correctly so that
} can't be it.

It's very unlikely that MailTools is causing this.  You must have something
else wrong, like maybe a broken nameserver.  Perl will need DNS to send
mail, but so will anything else.

}
} Is there a way to use smtp in a perl script without having to rely on
} internet config etc...

You can try Net::SMTP, but that's what MailTools is using anyway.

}
}
} Kind regards,
}
} Steven Vanlangenaeker
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}



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