I am trying to write a script which will send Gmail from a server using Perl. The code is as shown.
use warnings;
use strict;
use Email::Sender;
use Email::Send::Gmail;
use Email::Simple::Creator;
my $email = Email::Simple->create (
header => [
From => 'xxxx#gmail.com',
To => 'yyyyy#gmail.com',
Subject => 'Oh no! The bathwater is overflowing!',
],
body => 'The bath water is overflowing.',
);
my $sender = Email::Send->new ({
mailer => 'Gmail',
mailer_args => [
username => 'xxxxx',
password => 'yyyyy',
]
});
$sender->send ($email);
For which I get the error `Can't locate object method "create" via package "Email::Simple" at file.pl line 9.`
What is causing this error as I have installed Email::Simple Module and Gmail Modules.
You're missing use Email::Simple; as perldoc suggests.
Related
I have adapted a script from the Perl Cookbook. I am testing it to send mail to myself in gmail.
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use MIME::Lite;
my $msg;
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(From => 'zmumba#gmail.com',
To => 'zmumba#gmail.com',
Subject => 'My office photo',
Type => 'multipart/mixed');
$msg->attach(Type => 'image/png',
Path => '/home/zmumba/ZMD_Proj/Docs/Reporting',
Filename => 'office_lyout.png');
$msg->attach(Type => 'TEXT',
Data => 'I hope you can use this!');
$msg->send( );
When I run this script, I get the message "/home/zmumba/ZMD_Proj/Docs/Reporting" not readable.
From here How can I send mail through Gmail with Perl? , I now understand that I have to send mail through a mailserver to use MIME::Lite. So I replaced
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(From => 'zmumba#gmail.com
with
$msg = Email::Send::Gmail->new(From => 'zmumba#gmail.com
and I get the error "Can't locate object method "new" via package Email::Send::Gmail".
Then I tried
$msg = Net::IMAP::Simple::SSL->new(From => 'zmumba#gmail.com',
and I get "Odd number of elements in hash assignment at /home/zmumba/perl5/lib/perl5/Net/IMAP/Simple.pm line 25.
Can't call method "attach" on an undefined value at ...".
Any assistance on how to go about it?
Thanks in anticipation.
The Perl Cookbook is 20 years old and its recommendations will be out of date. Using MIME::Lite is discouraged.
MIME::Lite is not recommended by its current maintainer. There are a number of alternatives, like Email::MIME or MIME::Entity and Email::Sender, which you should probably use instead. MIME::Lite continues to accrue weird bug reports, and it is not receiving a large amount of refactoring due to the availability of better alternatives. Please consider using something else.
You should probably follow their recommendation and use Email::Sender.
"Can't locate object method "new" via package Email::Send::Gmail"
You need to load Email::Send::Gmail with use Email::Send::Gmail.
You may need to install the Email::Send::Gmail module. It's simplest to do this using either cpanminus or install a fresh Perl with perlbrew and then use cpanminus.
Then I tried
$msg = Net::IMAP::Simple::SSL->new(From => 'zmumba#gmail.com',
and I get "Odd number of elements in hash assignment at /home/zmumba/perl5/lib/perl5/Net/IMAP/Simple.pm line 25.
MIME::Lite, Email::Send::Gmail, and Net::IMAP::Simple::SSL are different libraries with different interfaces that take different arguments differently. Refer to their documentation for how to use them.
As mentioned before, both MIME::Lite and Email::Send is discouraged -
Email::Send is going away... well, not really going away, but it's
being officially marked "out of favor." It has API design problems
that make it hard to usefully extend and rather than try to deprecate
features and slowly ease in a new interface, we've released
Email::Sender which fixes these problems and others
I have created a script which uses Email::MIME, Email::Sender::Simple, Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP for sending mail. You can take a look at https://github.com/rai-gaurav/perl-toolkit/tree/master/Mail and use it as per your requirement.
Important lines from that code are -
sub create_mail {
my ( $self, $file_attachments, $mail_subject, $mail_body ) = #_;
my #mail_attachments;
if (#$file_attachments) {
foreach my $attachment (#$file_attachments) {
my $single_attachment = Email::MIME->create(
attributes => {
filename => basename($attachment),
content_type => "application/json",
disposition => 'attachment',
encoding => 'base64',
name => basename($attachment)
},
body => io->file($attachment)->all
);
push( #mail_attachments, $single_attachment );
}
}
# Multipart message : It contains attachment as well as html body
my #parts = (
#mail_attachments,
Email::MIME->create(
attributes => {
content_type => 'text/html',
encoding => 'quoted-printable',
charset => 'US-ASCII'
},
body_str => $mail_body,
),
);
my $mail_to_users = join ', ', #{ $self->{config}->{mail_to} };
my $cc_mail_to_users = join ', ', #{ $self->{config}->{mail_cc_to} };
my $email = Email::MIME->create(
header => [
From => $self->{config}->{mail_from},
To => $mail_to_users,
Cc => $cc_mail_to_users,
Subject => $mail_subject,
],
parts => [#parts],
);
return $email;
}
sub send_mail {
my ( $self, $email ) = #_;
my $transport = Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP->new(
{
host => $self->{config}->{smtp_server}
}
);
eval { sendmail( $email, { transport => $transport } ); };
if ($#) {
return 0, $#;
}
else {
return 1;
}
}
Gmail and other mail servers will not allow unauthorized relay. In most cases you will need authorized access.
Here is what I use, after also trying many modules. Maybe this solution seems a little bit overdone, but it's easy to change for HTML with plain text as alternative or other attachments. Parameters of the transport are the most common ones.
#!perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use utf8;
use Email::Sender::Simple qw(sendmail try_to_sendmail);
use Email::Sender::Transport::SMTPS;
use Email::Simple ();
use Email::Simple::Creator ();
use Email::MIME;
send_my_mail('john.doe#hisdomain.com','Test','Test, pls ignore');
sub send_my_mail {
my ($to_mail_address, $subject, $body_text) = #_;
my $smtpserver = 'smtp.mydomain.com';
my $smtpport = 587;
my $smtpuser = 'me#mydomain.com';
my $smtppassword = 'mysecret';
my $transport = Email::Sender::Transport::SMTPS->new({
host => $smtpserver,
ssl => 'starttls',
port => $smtpport,
sasl_username => $smtpuser,
sasl_password => $smtppassword,
#debug => 1,
});
my $text_part = Email::MIME->create(
attributes => {
'encoding' => 'quoted-printable',
'content_type' => 'text/plain',
'charset' => 'UTF-8',
},
'body_str' => $body_text,
);
my $alternative_part = Email::MIME->create(
attributes => {
'content_type' => 'multipart/alternative',
},
parts => [ $text_part, ],
);
my $email = Email::MIME->create(
header_str => [
To => $to_mail_address,
From => "Website <$smtpuser>",
Subject => $subject,
],
attributes => {
'content_type' => 'multipart/mixed',
},
parts => [ $alternative_part ],
);
my $status = try_to_sendmail($email, { transport => $transport });
return $status;
}
Take a look at Email::Send::Gmail module. It might solve your problem.
I am trying to send HTML email using a script. I will have to use native unix things and Email::Mime since those are the only thing I found installed in the box i am stuck with. I am creating a Email::Mime message and sending it to sendmail.
But i keep getting Error: No recipient addresses found in header
I have seen other RUBY scripts using sendmail so that works for this box.
Can someone help me with what I might be doing wrong in the below snippet?
sub send_mail(){
use MIME::QuotedPrint;
use HTML::Entities;
use IO::All;
use Email::MIME;
# multipart message
my #parts = (
Email::MIME->create(
attributes => {
content_type => "text/html",
disposition => "attachment",
encoding => "quoted-printable",
charset => "US-ASCII",
},
body_str => "Hello there!",
),
);
my $email = Email::MIME->create(
header_str => [
To => 'abc#xxx.com',
From => 'abc#xxx.com',
Subject => "Test Email",
],
parts => [#parts],
);
# die $email->as_string;
# die YAML::XS::Dump(\%mail);
open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL $email;
close (MAIL);
}
Thanks in advance.
print MAIL $email;
should be
print MAIL $email->as_string;
First of all, if your E-Mail server requires authentication (which most do of course), you need to specify a SMTP session:
$transport = EMail::Sender::Transport::SMTP::Persistent->new({
# host, port, ssl, etc
})
Furthermore, I think you don't actually need to create the content as an own MIME-content.
I did use something similar to this in my own work:
$email = Email::MIME->Create(
header_str => [ ... ],
body_str => $message,
attributes => {
charset => 'UTF-8',
encoding => 'base64',
content_type => 'text/html',
}
)
After sending your mail via sendmail($email, { transport => $transport }), you need to close the session through $transport->disconnect.
For your application you might to adapt several things like the actual sending protocol (if different from SMTP) or the attributes hash contents.
I have a simple sending email perl code.
use strict;
use warnings;
use Time::Format;
use Email::MIME;
use Email::Sender::Simple qw(sendmail);
use Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP;
my $message = Email::MIME->create(
header_str => [
From => 'me#provider.com',
To => 'me#provider.com',
Subject => 'test',
],
attributes => {
encoding => 'quoted-printable',
charset => 'ISO-8859-1',
},
body_str => 'stefy test',
);
my $transport = Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP->new({
host => 'my.server.smtp',
port => 25,
});
sendmail($message, { transport => $transport });
I can it run with success in one system but not another.
Windows 7 professional -> success
Window Server 2008 -> failure
this is the exception I get:
unable to establish SMTP connection to my.server.smtp port 25
Trace begun at D:\strawberryperl\perl\site\lib\Email\Sender\Transport\SMTP.pm line 193 Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP::_throw('Email::Sender::Transport::SMTP=HASH(0x38
0fef8)', 'unable to establish SMTP connection to my.server.smtp port 25') called at D:\strawberryperl\perl\site\lib\Email\Sender\Transport\SMTP.pm line 143
Any idea ?
thank you
update of the perl version fixed the problem.
This is perl 5, version 26, subversion 2 (v5.26.2) built for MSWin32-x64-multi-t
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I am new in openLDAP and perl. I want to export /import LDAP data with/without schema from LDAP database. Is this possible to do that using perl script? If yes ,please give me a sample code.
I would like to create a new schema using openLDAP and perl without dns.How to do that?
This is too many questions in one item. Please ask one question at a time.
How to read Ldap from wtih Perl:
use strict;
use warnings;
use Data::Dumper;
### for ldap
use Convert::ASN1;
use Net::LDAP;
use Net::LDAP::Util qw(ldap_error_name canonical_dn ldap_explode_dn ldap_error_text);
use Net::LDAP::LDIF;
my %parms (
host => 'localhost',
port => 389,
binddn => 'your dn',
passwd => 'password',
base => "",
filter => "(objectclass=*)",
scope => "base",
attrs => ['*'],
);
my $ldif = Net::LDAP::LDIF->new( "out.ldif", "w", onerror => 'die', wrap => 0 );
my $ldap= Net::LDAP->new($parms{'host'}, port => $parms{'port'});
my $bind_result = $ldap->bind($parms{'binddn'},'password' => $parms{'passwd'},'version' => '3');
if($bind_result->is_error()) {
die ('Unable to bind to ' . $parms{'host'} . ': '.$bind_result->error());
}
my #search_args = (
'base' => $parms{"base"},
'scope' => $parms{'scope'},
'filter' => $parms{'filter'},
'attrs' => $parms{'attrs'},
'deref' => 'always',
);
my $msg = $ldap->search(#search_args);
if ($msg->is_error()) {
die "ERROR: ".Dumper(\#search_args).", ".$msg->error."\n";
}
while (my $entry = $msg->pop_entry()){
my $cn = $entry->get_value("cn");
print "cn: $cn\n";
}
use strict;
use warnings;
use Mail::Sender;
$::sender = new Mail::Sender
{smtp => 'xx.xx.xx.xxx', from => 'abc#xyz.com'};
$::sender->MailFile({to => 'abc#xyz.com',
subject => 'Here is the file',
msg => "I'm sending you the list you wanted.",
});
You actually don't send any file. Try using this:
$::sender->MailFile({to => 'abc#xyz.com',
subject => 'Here is the file',
msg => "I'm sending you the list you wanted.",
file => 'full_path_to_your_attachment'});
The Mail::Sender documentation says that the file argument is mandatory.