Re: [MacPerl] Find SMTP server(s): nslookup?

["Quentin Smith" <macmania@bit-net.com>]

>From: "Paul J. Schinder" <schinder@pobox.com>
>To: Milivoj Ivkovic <mi@alma.ch>, macperl@macperl.org
>Subject: Re: [MacPerl] Find SMTP server(s): nslookup?
>Date: Thu, Apr 1, 1999, 9:05 AM
>

> At 12:53 PM +0200 4/1/99, Milivoj Ivkovic wrote:
>
> } >
> } >use Mac::InternetConfig;
> } >print $InternetConfig{kICSMTPHost};
> }
> } If it's that easy, it should be integrated into Net::DNS. Even if it
> }doesn't work on all Macs, it doesn't cost a lot to try...
>
> It's not that easy.  That little snippet does not work for me, and I
> certainly have Internet Config, with a setting for the SMTP server.  It
> comes built into the latest versions of MacOS, including the one I'm using.
> It may be that Mac::InternetConfig can't deal with the new Internet Config
> (it changed even before being incorporated into the OS, the one that ships
> with MacPerl is old).
I made a mistake in that code, the code should be:

use Mac::InternetConfig;
print $InternetConfig{kICSMTPHost()};

> }
> } >If you want to send e-mail, then you can just use Net::SMTP, which is in
> } >libnet. It automatically gets the data from InternetConfig, including SMTP
> } >host, SMTP username, SMTP password, and others.
> }
> } No need for a password for SMTP, but if the user's e-mail address is
> }there too, that's interesting. What would the key be?
>
>>From the docs, the email address seems to be kICEmail.
>
>
>
> -----
> Paul J. Schinder
> schinder@pobox.com
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