Looking for an email program

[askjoe]

Ok....I'm really new to perl but have the basics down. How do I go about finding a simple email program from shareware.....I've been looking everywhere but have yet been able to find one.

I want a basic program that I can modify to meet my needs.

Thanks for your help.

[DrDoc]

I think it's important to set two things straight:

1) There are no "e-mail programs" written in Perl... You need to have a mail server installed
2) There are hundreds of different scripts written in Perl that can handle sending and receiving e-mails...

Do you need to be able to just send, or receive as well? Do you need to be able to attach files? What about HTML formatted e-mails? What about address books? ...etc.

[askjoe]

Basically i have a website in which visitors can opt-in to receive our newsletter. What I want this email program to do is to be able to take their email from a list, get the text I want to send to the individual in the message box, send the email then go on to the next email address until it is sent to all that is on the list. I really don't care that much about receiving mail, but I think it might be a good idea in case they ever want to unsubcribe.

BTW....I don't spam....I'm just interested in sending the email to the individuals that request it.

Thanks for your time.

[bsterz]

Hi.

Have you been out to CPAN? It's CPAN dot org

Search perl modules. There are some great mail modules, and lots of example code with each module.

Bill

[edited by: bsterz at 9:10 pm (utc) on Jan. 7, 2004]

[DrDoc]

There are various newsletter management systems out there. A Web search will bring up some interesting results...