NAME Email::Stuff - Email stuff to people and things... and, like, stuff SYNOPSIS # Prepare the message my $body = <<'AMBUSH_READY'; Dear Santa I have killed Bun Bun. Yes, I know what you are thinking... but it was actually a total accident. I was in a crowded line at a BayWatch signing, and I tripped, and stood on his head. Yeah, I know. Oops! So, I am willing to sell you the body for $1 million dollars. Be near the pinhole to the Dimension of Pain at midnight. Alias AMBUSH_READY # Create and Send the Email Email::Stuff->From ('cpan@ali.as' ) ->To ('santa@northpole.org' ) ->BCC ('bunbun@sluggy.com' ) ->text_body($body ) ->attach (file => 'dead_bunbun_faked.gif', name => 'dead_bunbun_proof.gif') ->send ('sendmail' ); DESCRIPTION Note: Uploaded for review only, guarenteed to do nothing but compile. I REPEAT. MANY KNOWN BUGS. DO NOT USE, ON PAIN OF BUNNIES!!! In the spirit of the rest of the Email:: modules, Email::Stuff is a relatively light package that wraps over Email::MIME::Creator to take one more layer of details away from the process of building and sending medium complexity emails from website and other automated processes. Email::Stuff is generally used to build emails from within a single function, so it contains no parsing support, and little modification support. To re-iterate, this is very much a module for those "slap it together and send it off" situations, but that still has enough grunt behind the scenes to do things properly. METHODS As you can see from the synopsis, all methods that modify the Email::Stuff object returns the object, and thus is chainable. However, please note that non-modifying methods do not return the Email::Stuff object, and thus are not chainable. new Creates a new, empty, Email::Stuff object. headers Returns, as a list, all of the headers currently set for the Email parts Returns, as a list, the Email::MIME parts for the Email header $header => $value Adds a single named header to the email. Note I said add not set, so you can just keep shoving the headers on. But of course, if you want to use to overwrite a header, your stuffed. Because this module is not for changing emails, just throwing stuff together and sending it. To $address Adds a To header to the email From $address Adds (yes ADDS, you only do it once) a From header to the email CC $address Adds a CC header to the email BCC $address Adds a BCC header to the email text_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ] Sets the text body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for you. You may overload any as needed. See Email::MIME::Creator for the actual headers to use. html_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ] Set the HTML body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for you. You may overload any as needed. See Email::MIME::Creator for the actual headers to use. attach $contents [, $header => $value, ... ] Adds an attachment to the email. The first argument is the file contents followed by (as for text_body and html_body) the list of headers to use. Email::Stuff should TRY to guess the headers right, but you may wish to provide them anyway to be sure. Encoding is Base64 by default. Email Creates and returns the full Email::MIME object for the email. as_string Returns the string form of the email. Identical to (and uses behind the scenes) Email::MIME->as_string. send Sends the email via Email::Send. TO DO - Finish the trickier automated-headers for attachments. - Write the unit tests - Check the stuff we are passing to Email::MIME SUPPORT All bugs should be filed via the CPAN bug tracker at For other issues, contact the author AUTHORS Adam Kennedy (Maintainer), , cpan@ali.as COPYRIGHT Copyright (c) 2004 Adam Kennedy. All rights reserved. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module.