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Mac Forum / Programming / Perl / November 2005Send authenticated mail with MIME::Lite
Hi all, Just a quick question. I've been using MIME::Lite to send emails from my home computer as I am running a server there. But I recently switched to DSL with SBC/Yahoo and they are blocking port 25. My mail suddenly stopped going through. I've opted out of that, thinking that was the problem, as they give you the option, but that didn't seem to help. No mail is being sent from my cgi script. So I am wondering if there is a way to send authenticated mail with MIME::Lite. I've read the examples and docs regarding MIME::Lite and sending authenticated mail, but can't seem to make heads or tails about it. Does any one have an idea of how to do that? Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Mark > Just a quick question. I've been using MIME::Lite to send emails > from my home computer as I am running a server there. But I [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > tails about it. Does any one have an idea of how to do that? Any > help would be appreciated. Here's an example, taken from the MIME::Lite docs: ### Do something like this in your 'main': if ($I_DONT_HAVE_SENDMAIL) { MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "smtp.myisp.net", Timeout=>60); } ### Now this will do the right thing: $msg->send; ### will now use Net::SMTP as shown above If that doesn't work for you, one possible cause is that your ISP may be restricting outgoing email based on the "From:" header, to help cut down on spoofing. The ISPs that do this tend to allow you to opt out, because there are lots of valid reasons why you might want to use a different return address. sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org Hi Sherm, Yes, I saw that (although I didn't try it), but mail can't be sent unless I authenticate it with my userid and password. I read something about being able to do that with NET::SMTP. Perhaps having MIME::Lite prepare the message, and haveing NET::SMTP sending it. But again, I'm at a loss of how to do that. Any ideas? Thanks, Mark On Nov 9, 2005, at 11:30 PM, Mark Wheeler wrote: > Just a quick question. I've been using MIME::Lite to send emails from > my home computer as I am running a server there. But I recently [quoted text clipped - 6 lines] > mail, but can't seem to make heads or tails about it. Does any one > have an idea of how to do that? Any help would be appreciated. Here's an example, taken from the MIME::Lite docs: ### Do something like this in your 'main': if ($I_DONT_HAVE_SENDMAIL) { MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "smtp.myisp.net", Timeout=>60); } ### Now this will do the right thing: $msg->send; ### will now use Net::SMTP as shown above If that doesn't work for you, one possible cause is that your ISP may be restricting outgoing email based on the "From:" header, to help cut down on spoofing. The ISPs that do this tend to allow you to opt out, because there are lots of valid reasons why you might want to use a different return address. sherm-- Cocoa programming in Perl: http://camelbones.sourceforge.net Hire me! My resume: http://www.dot-app.org Mail::Sender handles sending via authenticated smtp. Carl the easiest fix for this issue is to go to the SBC DSL site and file the request to have the ports unblocked for your account. =) it takes about a day for them to open them up, and it's just a simple web form to fill out. - brian Hi Brian, Yes, I did that, but mail is still not going through. Does anyone know what happens to the mail when it is "doesn't go through"? Thanks, Mark On Nov 10, 2005, at 6:39 AM, brian pink wrote: the easiest fix for this issue is to go to the SBC DSL site and file the request to have the ports unblocked for your account. =) it takes about a day for them to open them up, and it's just a simple web form to fill out. - brian > Hi Brian, > > Yes, I did that, but mail is still not going through. > > Does anyone know what happens to the mail when it is "doesn't go > through"? In theory it should keep trying until the timeout period expires, which is normally set for around 3 days on SMTP servers. After that, an error should be bounced back saying it didn't go through. Some servers will send a message earlier (commonly at the end of 12/24 hours), confirming that they are still trying. That assumes everyone is playing nice. If someone is blocking selected SMTP connections, they are already not playing nice. They could fake an acceptance and just drop the message, or do something else... And, this assumes you've actually got it to the SMTP transport on your end. ;) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- OK.... Well... I checked out another part of my setup, namely PostFix Enabler, which I used to set things up to send out mail. I added the SBC smtp server, login, and password and bingo! Mail is going through again. So apparently, I don't have to do the authentication through my script, but just set it up though postfix. Thanks again for all you help. I will check out Mail::Sender, though. Looks interesting. Thanks again. Mark On Thu, November 10, 2005 11:43 am, Mark Wheeler said: > Hi Brian, > > Yes, I did that, but mail is still not going through. > > Does anyone know what happens to the mail when it is "doesn't go > through"? In theory it should keep trying until the timeout period expires, which is normally set for around 3 days on SMTP servers. After that, an error should be bounced back saying it didn't go through. Some servers will send a message earlier (commonly at the end of 12/24 hours), confirming that they are still trying. That assumes everyone is playing nice. If someone is blocking selected SMTP connections, they are already not playing nice. They could fake an acceptance and just drop the message, or do something else... And, this assumes you've actually got it to the SMTP transport on your end. ;) Daniel T. Staal --------------------------------------------------------------- This email copyright the author. Unless otherwise noted, you are expressly allowed to retransmit, quote, or otherwise use the contents for non-commercial purposes. This copyright will expire 5 years after the author's death, or in 30 years, whichever is longer, unless such a period is in excess of local copyright law. --------------------------------------------------------------- Greetings, I want to print Avery 6140 labels with name and address from a mac. Is there a library. If not, does anyone know how to set a font and tab a certain number of inches to print 3 columns? Joe Alotta > Mail::Sender handles sending via authenticated smtp. As does MIME::Lite 3.01_04. That is, however, marked as being a developer release, and the CPAN testers results are ... not good. Y'know, I'm sure that the same question was asked just a couple of weeks ago on one of the many lists I subscribe to. But I can't remember which list, or who by.  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