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Mail::Send(3)                        User Contributed Perl Documentation                       Mail::Send(3)



NAME
       Mail::Send - Simple electronic mail interface

SYNOPSIS
           require Mail::Send;

           $msg = new Mail::Send;

           $msg = new Mail::Send Subject=>'example subject', To=>'timbo';

           $msg->to('user@host');
           $msg->to('user@host', 'user2@example.com');
           $msg->subject('example subject');
           $msg->cc('user@host');
           $msg->bcc('someone@else');

           $msg->set($header, @values);
           $msg->add($header, @values);
           $msg->delete($header);

           # Launch mailer and set headers. The filehandle returned
           # by open() is an instance of the Mail::Mailer class.
           # Arguments to the open() method are passed to the Mail::Mailer
           # constructor.

           $fh = $msg->open;               # some default mailer
           # $fh = $msg->open('sendmail'); # explicit

           print $fh "Body of message";

           $fh->close;         # complete the message and send it

           $fh->cancel;        # not yet implemented

DESCRIPTION
SEE ALSO
       Mail::Mailer

AUTHORS
       Maintained by Mark Overmeer <mailtools@overmeer.net>

       Original code written by Tim Bunce <Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk>, with a kick start from Graham Barr
       <gbarr@pobox.com>. With contributions by Gerard Hickey <hickey@ctron.com>

       Copyright (c) 2002-2003 Mark Overmeer. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can
       redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.



perl v5.8.8                                      2006-01-21                                    Mail::Send(3)