9.6. Perl Mailers

There are other programs you can use for sending mail, but they are not as common. Some of these, such as blat, provide simple mailers for Windows systems. Instead of looking at these, we'll look at a Perl solution that works across all operating systems.

Mail::Mailer is a popular Perl module for sending Internet email. It provides a simple interface for sending messages with sendmail and mail (or mailx). It also allows you to send messages via SMTP without an external application, which makes it possible to send messages on non-Unix systems like Windows and even the MacOS.