Mail::Transport::Mailx(3p)

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.

Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Transport::Send.

METHODS
Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Transport::Send.

  Constructors
Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Transport::Send.

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
    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
Extends "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send.

$obj->destinations( $message, [$address|ARRAY] )
    Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->putContent($message, $fh, %options)
    Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->send($message, %options)
    Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

$obj->trySend($message, %options)

  Server connection
Extends "Server connection" in Mail::Transport::Send.

$obj->findBinary( $name, [@directories] )
    Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

$obj->remoteHost()
    Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

$obj->retry()
    Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

  Error handling
Extends "Error handling" in Mail::Transport::Send.

$obj->AUTOLOAD()
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->addReport($object)
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->errors()
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
Mail::Transport::Mailx->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logPriority($level)
Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority($level)
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->logSettings()
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->notImplemented()
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->report( [$level] )
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->reportAll( [$level] )
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->trace( [$level] )
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

$obj->warnings()
    Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

  Cleanup
Extends "Cleanup" in Mail::Transport::Send.

$obj->DESTROY()
    Inherited, 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 2.118, built on February 26, 2015. Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/mailbox/

LICENSE
Copyrights 2001-2015 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