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NAME
       Net::SMTP - Simple Mail Transfer Protocol Client

SYNOPSIS
           use Net::SMTP;

           # Constructors
           $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost');
           $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost', Timeout => 60);

DESCRIPTION
       This module implements a client interface to the SMTP and
       ESMTP protocol, enabling a perl5 application to talk to
       SMTP servers. This documentation assumes that you are
       familiar with the concepts of the SMTP protocol described
       in RFC821.

       A new Net::SMTP object must be created with the new
       method. Once this has been done, all SMTP commands are
       accessed through this object.

       The Net::SMTP class is a subclass of Net::Cmd and
       IO::Socket::INET.

EXAMPLES
       This example prints the mail domain name of the SMTP
       server known as mailhost:

           #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

           use Net::SMTP;

           $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost');
           print $smtp->domain,"\n";
           $smtp->quit;

       This example sends a small message to the postmaster at
       the SMTP server known as mailhost:

           #!/usr/local/bin/perl -w

           use Net::SMTP;

           $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost');

           $smtp->mail($ENV{USER});
           $smtp->to('postmaster');

           $smtp->data();
           $smtp->datasend("To: postmaster\n");
           $smtp->datasend("\n");
           $smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n");
           $smtp->dataend();




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           $smtp->quit;

CONSTRUCTOR
       new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ] )
           This is the constructor for a new Net::SMTP object.
           "HOST" is the name of the remote host to which an SMTP
           connection is required.

           "HOST" is optional. If "HOST" is not given then it may
           instead be passed as the "Host" option described
           below. If neither is given then the "SMTP_Hosts"
           specified in "Net::Config" will be used.

           "OPTIONS" are passed in a hash like fashion, using key
           and value pairs.  Possible options are:

           Hello - SMTP requires that you identify yourself. This
           option specifies a string to pass as your mail domain.
           If not given localhost.localdomain will be used.

           Host - SMTP host to connect to. It may be a single
           scalar, as defined for the "PeerAddr" option in
           IO::Socket::INET, or a reference to an array with
           hosts to try in turn. The "host" method will return
           the value which was used to connect to the host.

           LocalAddr and LocalPort - These parameters are passed
           directly to IO::Socket to allow binding the socket to
           a local port.

           Timeout - Maximum time, in seconds, to wait for a
           response from the SMTP server (default: 120)

           ExactAddresses - If true the all ADDRESS arguments
           must be as defined by "addr-spec" in RFC2822. If not
           given, or false, then Net::SMTP will attempt to
           extract the address from the value passed.

           Debug - Enable debugging information

           Example:

               $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost',
                                      Hello => 'my.mail.domain',
                                      Timeout => 30,
                                      Debug   => 1,
                                     );

               # the same
               $smtp = Net::SMTP->new(
                                      Host => 'mailhost',
                                      Hello => 'my.mail.domain',
                                      Timeout => 30,
                                      Debug   => 1,



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                                     );

               # Connect to the default server from Net::config
               $smtp = Net::SMTP->new(
                                      Hello => 'my.mail.domain',
                                      Timeout => 30,
                                     );

METHODS
       Unless otherwise stated all methods return either a true
       or false value, with true meaning that the operation was a
       success. When a method states that it returns a value,
       failure will be returned as undef or an empty list.

       banner ()
           Returns the banner message which the server replied
           with when the initial connection was made.

       domain ()
           Returns the domain that the remote SMTP server
           identified itself as during connection.

       hello ( DOMAIN )
           Tell the remote server the mail domain which you are
           in using the EHLO command (or HELO if EHLO fails).
           Since this method is invoked automatically when the
           Net::SMTP object is constructed the user should
           normally not have to call it manually.

       host ()
           Returns the value used by the constructor, and passed
           to IO::Socket::INET, to connect to the host.

       etrn ( DOMAIN )
           Request a queue run for the DOMAIN given.

       auth ( USERNAME, PASSWORD )
           Attempt SASL authentication.

       mail ( ADDRESS [, OPTIONS] )
       send ( ADDRESS )
       send_or_mail ( ADDRESS )
       send_and_mail ( ADDRESS )
           Send the appropriate command to the server MAIL, SEND,
           SOML or SAML. "ADDRESS" is the address of the sender.
           This initiates the sending of a message. The method
           "recipient" should be called for each address that the
           message is to be sent to.

           The "mail" method can some additional ESMTP OPTIONS
           which is passed in hash like fashion, using key and
           value pairs.  Possible options are:





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            Size        => <bytes>
            Return      => "FULL" | "HDRS"
            Bits        => "7" | "8" | "binary"
            Transaction => <ADDRESS>
            Envelope    => <ENVID>     # xtext-encodes its argument
            ENVID       => <ENVID>     # similar to Envelope, but expects argument encoded
            XVERP       => 1
            AUTH        => <submitter> # encoded address according to RFC 2554

           The "Return" and "Envelope" parameters are used for
           DSN (Delivery Status Notification).

           The submitter address in "AUTH" option is expected to
           be in a format as required by RFC 2554, in an
           RFC2821-quoted form and xtext-encoded, or <> .

       reset ()
           Reset the status of the server. This may be called
           after a message has been initiated, but before any
           data has been sent, to cancel the sending of the
           message.

       recipient ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS, [...]] [, OPTIONS ] )
           Notify the server that the current message should be
           sent to all of the addresses given. Each address is
           sent as a separate command to the server.  Should the
           sending of any address result in a failure then the
           process is aborted and a false value is returned. It
           is up to the user to call "reset" if they so desire.

           The "recipient" method can also pass additional case-
           sensitive OPTIONS as an anonymous hash using key and
           value pairs.  Possible options are:

             Notify  => ['NEVER'] or ['SUCCESS','FAILURE','DELAY']  (see below)
             ORcpt   => <ORCPT>
             SkipBad => 1        (to ignore bad addresses)

           If "SkipBad" is true the "recipient" will not return
           an error when a bad address is encountered and it will
           return an array of addresses that did succeed.

             $smtp->recipient($recipient1,$recipient2);  # Good
             $smtp->recipient($recipient1,$recipient2, { SkipBad => 1 });  # Good
             $smtp->recipient($recipient1,$recipient2, { Notify => ['FAILURE','DELAY'], SkipBad => 1 });  # Good
             @goodrecips=$smtp->recipient(@recipients, { Notify => ['FAILURE'], SkipBad => 1 });  # Good
             $smtp->recipient("$recipient,$recipient2"); # BAD

           Notify is used to request Delivery Status
           Notifications (DSNs), but your SMTP/ESMTP service may
           not respect this request depending upon its version
           and your site's SMTP configuration.

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           service to its default behavior equivalent to
           ['FAILURE'] notifications only, but again this may be
           dependent upon your site's SMTP configuration.

           The NEVER keyword must appear by itself if used within
           the Notify option and "requests that a DSN not be
           returned to the sender under any conditions."

             {Notify => ['NEVER']}

             $smtp->recipient(@recipients, { Notify => ['NEVER'], SkipBad => 1 });  # Good

           You may use any combination of these three values
           'SUCCESS','FAILURE','DELAY' in the anonymous array
           reference as defined by RFC3461 (see
           http://rfc.net/rfc3461.html for more information.
           Note: quotations in this topic from same.).

           A Notify parameter of 'SUCCESS' or 'FAILURE' "requests
           that a DSN be issued on successful delivery or
           delivery failure, respectively."

           A Notify parameter of 'DELAY' "indicates the sender's
           willingness to receive delayed DSNs.  Delayed DSNs may
           be issued if delivery of a message has been delayed
           for an unusual amount of time (as determined by the
           Message Transfer Agent (MTA) at which the message is
           delayed), but the final delivery status (whether
           successful or failure) cannot be determined.  The
           absence of the DELAY keyword in a NOTIFY parameter
           requests that a "delayed" DSN NOT be issued under any
           conditions."

             {Notify => ['SUCCESS','FAILURE','DELAY']}

             $smtp->recipient(@recipients, { Notify => ['FAILURE','DELAY'], SkipBad => 1 });  # Good

           ORcpt is also part of the SMTP DSN extension according
           to RFC3461.  It is used to pass along the original
           recipient that the mail was first sent to.  The
           machine that generates a DSN will use this address to
           inform the sender, because he can't know if recipients
           get rewritten by mail servers.  It is expected to be
           in a format as required by RFC3461, xtext-encoded.

       to ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] )
       cc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] )
       bcc ( ADDRESS [, ADDRESS [...]] )
           Synonyms for "recipient".

       data ( [ DATA ] )
           Initiate the sending of the data from the current
           message.




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           "DATA" may be a reference to a list or a list. If
           specified the contents of "DATA" and a termination
           string ".\r\n" is sent to the server. And the result
           will be true if the data was accepted.

           If "DATA" is not specified then the result will
           indicate that the server wishes the data to be sent.
           The data must then be sent using the "datasend" and
           "dataend" methods described in Net::Cmd.

       expand ( ADDRESS )
           Request the server to expand the given address Returns
           an array which contains the text read from the server.

       verify ( ADDRESS )
           Verify that "ADDRESS" is a legitimate mailing address.

           Most sites usually disable this feature in their SMTP
           service configuration.  Use "Debug => 1" option under
           new() to see if disabled.

       help ( [ $subject ] )
           Request help text from the server. Returns the text or
           undef upon failure

       quit ()
           Send the QUIT command to the remote SMTP server and
           close the socket connection.

ADDRESSES
       Net::SMTP attempts to DWIM with addresses that are passed.
       For example an application might extract The From: line
       from an email and pass that to mail(). While this may
       work, it is not recommended.  The application should
       really use a module like Mail::Address to extract the mail
       address and pass that.

       If "ExactAddresses" is passed to the constructor, then
       addresses should be a valid rfc2821-quoted address,
       although Net::SMTP will accept accept the address
       surrounded by angle brackets.

        funny user@domain      WRONG
        "funny user"@domain    RIGHT, recommended
        <"funny user"@domain>  OK

SEE ALSO
       Net::Cmd

AUTHOR
       Graham Barr <gbarr@pobox.com>

COPYRIGHT
       Copyright (c) 1995-2004 Graham Barr. All rights reserved.



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