Mail::Transport::Mailx(3pm)				User Contributed Perl Documentation			       Mail::Transport::Mailx(3pm)

NAME

       Mail::Transport::Mailx - transmit messages using external mailx program

INHERITANCE

	Mail::Transport::Mailx
	  is a Mail::Transport::Send
	  is a Mail::Transport
	  is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS

	my $sender = Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(...);
	$sender->send($message);

DESCRIPTION

       Implements mail transport using the external programs 'mailx', "Mail", or 'mail'.  When instantiated, the mailer will look for any of these
       binaries in specific system directories, and the first program found is taken.

       WARNING: There are many security issues with mail and mailx. DO NOT USE these commands to send messages which contains data derived from
       any external source!!!

       Under Linux, freebsd, and bsdos the "mail", "Mail", and "mailx" names are just links to the same binary.  The implementation is very
       primitive, pre-MIME standard,  what may cause many headers to be lost.  For these platforms (and probably for other platforms as well), you
       can better not use this transport mechanism.

METHODS

   Constructors
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(OPTIONS)
	    -Option    --Defined in	--Default
	     executable  Mail::Transport  undef
	     hostname	 Mail::Transport  'localhost'
	     interval	 Mail::Transport  30
	     log	 Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
	     password	 Mail::Transport  undef
	     port	 Mail::Transport  undef
	     proxy	 Mail::Transport  undef
	     retry	 Mail::Transport  <false>
	     style			  <autodetect>
	     timeout	 Mail::Transport  120
	     trace	 Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
	     username	 Mail::Transport  undef
	     via	 Mail::Transport  'mailx'

	   executable => FILENAME
	   hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY-OF-HOSTNAMES
	   interval => SECONDS
	   log => LEVEL
	   password => STRING
	   port => INTEGER
	   proxy => PATH
	   retry => NUMBER|undef
	   style => 'BSD'|'RFC822'
	     There are two version of the "mail" program.  The newest accepts RFC822 messages, and automagically collect information about where
	     the message is to be send to.  The BSD style mail command predates MIME, and expects lines which start with a '~' (tilde) to specify
	     destinations and such.  This field is autodetect, however on some platforms both versions of "mail" can live (like various Linux
	     distributions).

	   timeout => SECONDS
	   trace => LEVEL
	   username => STRING
	   via => CLASS|NAME

   Sending mail
       $obj->destinations(MESSAGE, [ADDRESS|ARRAY-OF-ADDRESSES])
	   See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

       $obj->putContent(MESSAGE, FILEHANDLE, OPTIONS)
	   See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

       $obj->send(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)
	   See "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

       $obj->trySend(MESSAGE, OPTIONS)

   Server connection
       $obj->findBinary(NAME [, DIRECTORIES])
	   See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

       $obj->remoteHost()
	   See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

       $obj->retry()
	   See "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

   Error handling
       $obj->AUTOLOAD()
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->addReport(OBJECT)
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace([LEVEL]|[LOGLEVEL, TRACELEVEL]|[LEVEL, CALLBACK])
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->errors()
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->log([LEVEL [,STRINGS]])
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->logPriority(LEVEL)
       Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority(LEVEL)
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->logSettings()
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->notImplemented()
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->report([LEVEL])
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->reportAll([LEVEL])
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->trace([LEVEL])
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->warnings()
	   See "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

   Cleanup
       $obj->DESTROY()
	   See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

       $obj->inGlobalDestruction()
	   See "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

DIAGNOSTICS

       Warning: Message has no destination
	   It was not possible to figure-out where the message is intended to go to.

       Error: Package $package does not implement $method.
	   Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this method where it should. This message means that
	   some other related classes do implement this method however the class at hand does not.  Probably you should investigate this and
	   probably inform the author of the package.

       Warning: Resent group does not specify a destination
	   The message which is sent is the result of a bounce (for instance created with Mail::Message::bounce()), and therefore starts with a
	   "Received" header field.  With the "bounce", the new destination(s) of the message are given, which should be included as "Resent-To",
	   "Resent-Cc", and "Resent-Bcc".

	   The "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" header information is only used if no "Received" was found.  That seems to be the best explanation of the
	   RFC.

	   As alternative, you may also specify the "to" option to some of the senders (for instance Mail::Transport::SMTP::send(to) to overrule
	   any information found in the message itself about the destination.

       Error: Sending via mailx mailer $program failed: $! ($?)
	   Mailx (in some shape: there are many different implementations) did start accepting messages, but did not succeed sending it.

SEE ALSO

       This module is part of Mail-Box distribution version 2.105, built on May 07, 2012. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE

       Copyrights 2001-2012 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

       This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.  See
       http://www.perl.com/perl/misc/Artistic.html

perl v5.14.2							    2012-05-07					       Mail::Transport::Mailx(3pm)