http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/154 Effective Perl Programming - write better, more idiomatic Perl Wed, 28 Dec 2011 08:06:47 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/154/comment-page-1#comment-15 thomas11 Fri, 18 Jun 2010 07:40:17 +0000 http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/?p=154#comment-15 brian, check out Email::Stuff: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Email::Stuff. That makes sending mail as simple as it should be. brian, check out Email::Stuff: http://search.cpan.org/perldoc?Email::Stuff. That makes sending mail as simple as it should be.

]]> http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/154/comment-page-1#comment-14 brian d foy Wed, 16 Jun 2010 04:17:18 +0000 http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/?p=154#comment-14 I've added an Email::Simple example, but I think Ricardo took the interface in the wrong direction and that it's actually harder to use and much more confusing. Most people don't need to extend the basic interface so Email::Send should be much more straightforward. Really, sending email from within Perl should be as easy as sending it from an email program. You give it some addresses, a subject line, and a message. Something behind the scenes figures out where all the pieces go and how to represent them as objects without dragging the programmer into the weeds. I’ve added an Email::Simple example, but I think Ricardo took the interface in the wrong direction and that it’s actually harder to use and much more confusing. Most people don’t need to extend the basic interface so Email::Send should be much more straightforward. Really, sending email from within Perl should be as easy as sending it from an email program. You give it some addresses, a subject line, and a message. Something behind the scenes figures out where all the pieces go and how to represent them as objects without dragging the programmer into the weeds.

]]> http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/blog/154/comment-page-1#comment-13 dcmertens Wed, 16 Jun 2010 01:56:31 +0000 http://www.effectiveperlprogramming.com/?p=154#comment-13 FYI, the maintainer for Email::Send has decided to replace it with the similarly named module Email::Sender. To quote from the Email::Send documentation, "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." FYI, the maintainer for Email::Send has decided to replace it with the similarly named module Email::Sender. To quote from the Email::Send documentation, “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.”

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