[ic] Sending mail from perl block and Net::SMTP
Stefan Hornburg
racke at linuxia.de
Wed Sep 17 11:36:31 UTC 2008
Ton Verhagen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> When using Net::SMTP as the SendmailProgram it is not possible to
> reliably send email from a Perl code block using the email tag.
>
> Errors showing up frequently in error.log:
>
> ...Safe: 'require' trapped by operation mask at ... Select.pm line 9.
> Compilation failed in require at ...IO/socket.pm line 116.
>
> We'd rather not fiddle with SafeUntrap(ping) the require.
>
> Would there be any good solution to make it possible to use Net::SMTP
> and be able to send email from a Perl code block?
> Anyone of you encountered this problem?
Never tried that, what benefit do you see in using Net::SMTP?
>
> Anyone keeping in touch with their customers by sending personalized
> newsletters (plain text and html) etc?
> If so, what would be the maximum number of customers that could be
> contacted? I am asking because we tried
> sending a personalized email/newsletter to our customer base (Sendmail
> as the SendmailProgram) and the
> system stopped after 1000+ emails. We need to get in touch with tens
> of thousands of clients.
> Just to be absolute clear: NO this is not spam!
I definitely recommend to use separate software/system for sending these
amounts of emails.
Regards
Racke
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