[cgiapp] Best email module?

Lyle webmaster at cosmicperl.com
Fri Jan 30 12:10:11 EST 2009


Octavian Rasnita wrote:
> From: "Michael Peters" <mpeters at plusthree.com>
>> Stewart Heckenberg wrote:
>>> I like MIME::Lite -- has a very simple attachment interface :)
>>
>> MIME::Lite is what I've used in the past, although the Perl Email 
>> folks don't recommend it. Apparently it's very crufty on the insides. 
>> I think they recommend Email::MIME instead.
>
> Email::MIME is in alpha version yet, although it could work fine. 
> Email::Lite is too low level and it requires too much coding for a 
> complex email message.
>
> Mail::Builder::Simple is easier to use for sending complex email 
> messages, with attachments, inline images, or create the message body 
> or the attachments using Template-Toolkit or HTML::Template. It also 
> automaticly encodes the message body and the headers to UTF-8 so they 
> can contain non-english chars.
> It uses Email::Send for sending email, so it doesn't have the bugs of 
> some Mail::* modules.
>
> Octavian

This looks great, but it leans heavily on CPAN and there are several XS 
modules I don't think I could resolve :/


Lyle



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