Sendmail Attachment

[wsexton]

I'd like to add an attachment to an email I'm sending from a perl script using sendmail. Here's my code:
#!/usr/bin/perl

use warnings;

use CGI;
use Mail::Sendmail;

$file = "testdoc.txt";

unshift @{$Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg{'smtp'}} , 'AB-MAIL4';

%mail = ( To => 'wsexton@anywhere.net',
From => 'DSU Request Form@anywhere.net',
);


$mail{'mESSaGE : '} = "This is my message.";

sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;

I'd like to attach a file to this email, and I can figure out how it's done. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[kordaff]

Easy module to use to send attachment without messing with converting it to a mime attachment yourself:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use Mail::SendEasy ;
my $mail = new Mail::SendEasy( smtp => 'smtp.west.cox.net' ) ;
my $status = $mail->send(
  from    => 'kordaff@plh.org',
  from_title => 'Kordaff Nobleheart',
  to      => 'spam@plh.org',
  subject => "MAIL Test",
  msg     => "The Plain Msg...",
  html    => "<b>Me Pic</b><img src='[URL unfurl="true"]http://plh.org/images/phil.jpg'>",[/URL]
  anex    => "media/85064a6eb7b625690cd6daae96b60006200510020_full.jpg",
  );
if (!$status) { print $mail->error ;}

The anex method sends the file you've give the path to as an attachment. The html bit was me figuring out how to send a pic in the email. Got Mail::SendEasy from CPAN. It also does smtp auth.

Kordaff

 

[wsexton]

I've tried using ppm to install Mail-SendEasy but I get the message "no suitable installation target found for package Mail-SendEasy." I'm using ActivePerl 5.8.7.813.

 

[kordaff]

This module is pure perl, no .c or .xs files in it. I'm going to reboot to my trusty (heh) windows partition and see if I can locate a make.exe to install this there.

Kordaff

 

[kordaff]

Downloaded nmake.exe from a link I found on google:

http://support.microsoft.com/default.aspx?scid=kb;en-us;Q132084

I un-archived the Mail::SendEasy tar.gz file with WinRar.

perl Makefile.PL
nmake
nmake install

Do the perl makefile.pl and make/make install in the directory extracted from the tarball and you should be all set.

Kordaff