Re: Sending e-mail with attachments.

[periapt]

I don't think that Net::SMTP allows for attachments but the module Mime::Lite does. Mime::Lite is part of Activestate's core distribution. Below is a very stripped down example of using the module. I copped it out of a running program and took out the program specific variables and references so it may not work right out of the can but it should give you an idea.

#!/usr/local/ActivePerl-5.6/bin/perl
# Compiler directives and Includes
use strict;
use warnings;
use diagnostics;
use Mime::Lite;

# Constants and pragmas
use constant TRUE      => scalar 1;
use constant FALSE     => scalar 0;

#####################################################################;
#main()
{
    my @to      = ();
    my @cc      = ();
    my @bcc     = ();
    my $subject = '';
    my %mailhdr = ();
    my $msg     = '';
    my $body    = '';
    my $mailsvr  = '';
    my $filename = '';
    my $path     = '';
    my $type     = '';
    my $tmp      = '';
    my $from     = '';
    my %mimetype = ('zip' =>'application/zip',
                    'pdf'=>'application/pdf',
                    'html'=>'text/html',
                    'txt'=>'text/plain',       
                    'ps'  =>'application/postcript',
                    'tgz'=>'application/gzip', 
                    'tab' =>'text/tab-separated-values',
                    'htm'=>'text/html',
                    'rtf'=>'text/richtext',
                    'doc'=>'application/msword',
                    'gzip'=>'application/gzip',
                    'gz' =>'application/gzip',);

    $mailhdr{From}    = "$from";
    $mailhdr{To}      = \@to;
    $mailhdr{Cc}      = \@cc  if scalar @cc;
    $mailhdr{Bcc}     = \@bcc if scalar @bcc;
    $mailhdr{Subject} = "$subject";
    $mailhdr{Type}    = 'multipart/mixed'; # indicates attachments
    
    $msg = MIME::Lite->new( %mailhdr );    

    $msg->attach(Type     =>'TEXT',
                 Data     =>"$body"
                );

    $tmp = (exists($mimetype{$type})) 
               ? $mimetype{$type} 
               : 'application/octet-stream' ;
    $msg->attach(Type     =>"$tmp",
                 Path     =>"$path",
                 Filename =>"$filename",
                 Disposition => 'attachment'
                );

    MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "$mailsvr", Timeout=>60);
    eval{$msg->send};                      # send email

    exit 0; 
   
} #end main()
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