Question

I am making a website for a camping and I need to send an email from Perl. However, sendmail is not installed on the server, and these are the only Perl modules installed:

• Class::Accessor
• Config::Tiny
• Math::Calc::Units
• Nagios::Plugin
• Params::Validate
• Perl 5.8.8
• TimeDate

Is there still a way to send an email form a Perl script?

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_{I already phoned the webhosting company about this but it seems that they don’t even know what Perl is. Let alone sendmail. That calls itself a webhosting company.}

Answer 1

Net::SMTP is a core module and should be included in any installation of Perl. The module documentation shows a simple example of sending an email. Use “perldoc Net::SMTP” to see if it is there and to see the example.