I am unable to send a mail using MIME::Lite. While sending from my desktop it will through the below errors.
Error: "SMTP Failed to connect to mail server: Bad file descriptor"
I am using the below mentioned code.
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
use Net::SMTP;
my $from_address = "no-reply#host.com";
my $to_address = "madhan#host.com";
my $cc_address = "madhan#host.com";
my $subject = "Test mail";
my $message_body = "Madhan test mail";
my $namer="madhankumar";
my $regards="Madhan M";
print " Sending mail from $from_address to $to_address \n";
my $person_name=ucfirst($namer).",";
my $mail_host = 'mail1.somehost.com';
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new (
From => $from_address,
To => $to_address,
Cc => $cc_address,
Subject => $subject,
Type =>'multipart/mixed'
) or die "Error creating multipart container: $!\n";
$msg->attach (
Type => 'TEXT',
Data => "Dear $person_name\n\n".$message_body."\n\nRegards,\n$regards"
) or die "Error adding the text message part: $!\n";
MIME::Lite->send('smtp', $mail_host, Timeout=>60);
$msg->send;
The above code is working fine while the mail server is connected with LAN. While using the code in remote system the error has been thrown as mentioned in below
"SMTP Failed to connect to mail server: Bad file descriptor".
May I know the reason.. Is the code run in remote system. If not what are the change I have made the code.. Please share your solutions....
Thanks in advance...
Note: I am developing this in Windows XP
The variables do not contain what you think they contain. If you had switched on warnings, you would have noticed this on your own.
$ perl -e'use warnings; my $from_address = "no-reply#host.com";'
Possible unintended interpolation of #host in string at -e line 1.
Name "main::host" used only once: possible typo at -e line 1.
The remedy is to use single quotes to delimit those strings.
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I have this script to send email. Everything works except that after the email is sent I receive the error below. It has to be something simple I am missing. I checked and cgi file is 755 and since it gets to the sub and executes its got to be coder error. Any help greatly appreciated.
Internal Server Error The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request. More information about this error may be available in the server error log. Additionally, a 500 Internal Server Error error was encountered while trying to use an ErrorDocument to handle the request.
The error in the server log is:
[Tue Jan 17 16:00:23.475272 2023] [cgi:error] [pid 230679] [client 69.90.223.10:35014] End of script output before headers: test3.cgi
Here is the code I am using, Perl CGI on Linux
#!/usr/bin/perl -Tw
# use warnings;
use strict;
use Net::SMTP;
send_mail('mail.xxxxxxx.com', # Host
'order#xxxxxxxxx.com', #From
'yyyyyyy#gmail.com', #to
'Just a test, from mail.xxxxxx.com please ignore', #Message body
"Testing mail server email.\n" # Subject
);
exit;
sub send_mail {
my ($SMTP_HOST, $from, $to_addr, $body, $subject, $msg) = #_;
$msg = "MIME-Version: 1.0\n"
. "From: $from\n"
. "To: " . ( ref($to_addr) ? join(';', #$to_addr) : $to_addr ) . "\n"
. "Subject: $subject\n\n" # Double \n
. $body;
#
# Open a SMTP session
#
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new( $SMTP_HOST,
Debug => 0, # Change to a 1 to turn on debug messages
Port => 587,
);
die("SMTP ERROR: Unable to open smtp session.\n")
if(!defined($smtp) || !($smtp));
die("Failed to set FROM address\n")
if (! ($smtp->mail( $from ) ) );
die("Failed to set receipient\n")
if (! ($smtp->recipient( ( ref($to_addr) ? #$to_addr : $to_addr ) ) ) );
$smtp->data( $msg );
$smtp->quit;
}
Checked File attributes they are 755
Since it ran the code an performed the send email the Char set should be correct
Being new to Perl not sure what else to check
This isn't a CGI program. You send no response for the request. Since there is no response (not even an invalid one), the script exits with nothing sent to standard output. The server realizes this is a problem, creates the 500 server error response, and adds to the error log that the script output ended before headers, which is the first thing the server expected to see.
You might want to start with a basic CGI tutorial to see how CGI works.
But, also realize that sending mail through a CGI program is a very 1990s thing to do. We don't typically do that anymore because we all figured out that letting anyone trigger mail through a public server was a bad idea.
I have a Perl script that sends simple HTML emails to users with status updates and a link to more information. I'm creating mail with Net::SMTP and sending mail using smtp-relay.gmail.com. It has been working great for years.
In the last month, the emails stopped appearing - just gone with no errors and not in SPAM. Hours of troubleshooting later, I've narrowed the problem down to Gmail silently dropping emails that contain my specific URL.
http://DOMAIN/cgi-bin/requests/single_request.pl?requestid=111111
I changed one character and POOF! working again.
http://DOMAIN/cgi-bin/requests/single-request.pl?requestid=111111
I know this is a vague question, but what is going on? The workaround is fine, but I sure didn't learn anything about the root cause.
#!c:\strawberry\perl\bin -w
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SMTP;
use Net::Config;
# use this function to send email
#
# example:
#
# send_mail("RECIPIENT\#DOMAIN", "SUBJECT HERE", "BODY HERE");
sub send_mail{
my $recipient = shift;
my $subject = shift;
my $body = shift;
# connect to an SMTP server
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new("smtp-relay.gmail.com", Debug => 0, Timeout => 30, Hello => 'REDACTED') or die "SMTP Connection Failed: smtp-relay.gmail.com";
# sender's address here
$smtp->mail('REDACTED');
# recipient"s address
$smtp->to($recipient);
# Start the mail
$smtp->data();
# Send the header.
$smtp->datasend("MIME-Version: 1.0\n");
$smtp->datasend("Content-Type: text/html; charset=\"UTF-8\" \n");
$smtp->datasend("To: $recipient . \n");
$smtp->datasend("From: REDACTED\n");
$smtp->datasend("Reply-to: REDACTED\n");
$smtp->datasend("Subject: $subject \n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
# Send the body.
$smtp->datasend($body);
# Finish sending the mail
$smtp->dataend();
# Close the SMTP connection
$smtp->quit();
}
1;
I am trying to send my first email (from a windows machine) with Perl, but I am getting an error:
SMTP Failed to connect to mail server: at emailer2.pl line 18 (msg->send;)
I am totally new to Perl so any help would be greatly appreciated. Has anyone encountered this problem before? I have searched for the error but I had no luck finding my exact problem.
Thanks so much for your help!
CODE:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use MIME::Lite;
$to = 'myemail#gmail.com';
$cc = 'myemail#gmail.com';
$from = 'myemail#gmail.com';
$subject = 'Test Email';
$message = 'This is test email sent by Perl Script';
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
From => $from,
To => $to,
Cc => $cc,
Subject => $subject,
Data => $message
);
$msg->send;
print "Email Sent Successfully\n";
It means you don't have a mail server running on your machine. You need to install one and make sure it is running.
You may also use another mail server setting default parameters before sending the message
MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "smpt.example.org", Timeout=>60, SSL=>1,
AuthUser=>"myself", AuthPass=>"mysecret");
Take a look at MIME::Lite sending section.
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Net::SMTP;
$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost');
print $smtp->domain,"\n";
$smtp->quit;
I run this pl file and get error "Can't call method "domain" on an undefined value"
and in this pl file:
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use Net::SMTP;
$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost');
$smtp->mail($ENV{USER});
$smtp->to('postmaster');
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("To: postmaster\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n");
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit;
I get error Can't call method "mail" on an undefined value
What I need todo ?
Has it occured to you that Net::SMTP may have had problems finding your mailhost, and establishing an SMTP connection? I see that you took your scripts directly from the documentation – you do have to supply an actual value for mailhost.
If you had read the documentation a bit further, especially to the documentation for the new method, you'd have found this interesting snippet:
new ( [ HOST ] [, OPTIONS ] )
This is the constructor for a new Net::SMTP object. HOST is the name of the remote host to which an SMTP connection is required.
On failure undef will be returned and $# will contain the reason for the failure.
So let's print out that reson for failure:
my $mailhost = "your mailhost";
my $smpt = Net::SMTP->new($mailhost) or die "Can't connect to $mailhost: $#";
die aborts your program with an error message. This message should tell you more about the actual error.
Do note that the example code in the documentation is not neccessarily meant to be used for real projects – it is just there to showcase the capabilities of the module. For real code, always use strict; use warnings at the top of your code, and declare all your variables with my. This helps finding more errors.
I'm trying to send emails out using MIME::Lite with authentication.
Here's the code snippet I am trying:
#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use DBI;
use lib '/theannealing.com/perl/';
use MIME::Lite;
use MIME::Base64;
use Authen::SASL;
my $recipient = 'recipient#email.com';
my $mailman = 'sender#email.com';
my $cc_recipient = 'ccrecipient#email.com';
my $subject = 'Subject';
my $email_message = "Message";
my ($user,$pass) = ("username","password");
MIME::Lite->send('smtp','smtp.server:port',AuthUser=>$user, AuthPass=>$pass);
my $email = new MIME::Lite(From => $mailman,To => $recipient,Cc => $cc_recipient,Subject => $subject,Data => "Data",Type => "multipart/mixed");
$email->attach(Type => 'TEXT', Data => "$email_message");
$email->send();
When I execute the script, I get this error message:
Cannot find a SASL Connection library at /usr/lib/perl5/5.8.8/Net/SMTP.pm line 143
I tried searching the error message and couldn't find any worth-while explanations and/or solutions to the problem with relevance to usage with MIME::Lite
Does anyone know what's wrong or what's producing that error message?
UPDATE
Emailing via php using the mail() function works fine from a web browser, but does not work from the command line
You need to reinstall Authen::SASL - it was installed incorrectly. Do this as root from command line:
cpan GBARR/Authen-SASL-2.15.tar.gz