#!/usr/bin/perl
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
# faxer.pl <recipient> <file>
#
# Send file <file> to <recipient>. Note that the recipient field is
# a specially formatted field that contains recipient name, fax #,
# and email address of the fax server, like so:
#
# "/name=Lonnie Phillips/fax=5551234/<rfax@npc.net>"
#
# 20050111 Roboticus - Added comments, some error checking
# ???????? LPhillips - originally written
#-------------------------------------------------------------------
use strict;
use MIME::Lite;
MIME::Lite->send('smtp','mail.your.domain',Timeout=>60);
use Net::SMTP;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mail.your.domain', Debug=>1);
print $smtp->domain,"\n";
my $usage=
'usage: faxer.pl <recipient>
where:
<recipient> = Fax address, formatted like:
"/name=Roboticus/fax=5551234/<rfax@your.domain>"
';
#my $fax_dest = @ARGV[0] or die $usage . "\nmissing <recipient>";
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
To => '/name=%fromName%/fax=%toFax%/<rfax@your.domain>',
From => 'MailBot@your.domain',
Subject => 'Roboticus\'s test fax',
Type => 'multipart/related',
) or die "Error creating MIME container!\n";
$msg->attach(
Type => 'text/html',
Data => qq {<html>
<body>
<img src="cid:ltrhead.gif">
</p>
<div align="center">
<table border="1">
<tr align="center"><td colspan="2">TO</td><td colspan="2">FROM</td></
+tr>
<tr><td align="right">Name:</td><td>%toName%</td><td align="right">Na
+me:</td><t
d>%fromName%</tr>
<tr><td align="right">Fax:</td><td>%toFax%</td><td align="right">Fax:
+</td><td>%
fromFax%</td></tr>
<tr><td></td><td></td><td align="right">Phone:</td><td>%fromPhone%</t
+d></tr>
<tr><td></td><td></td><td align="right">EMail:</td><td>%fromEMail%</t
+d></tr>
</table>
</div>
<hr>
</p>
To Whom It May Concern,</p>
Regional Security is currently conducting a review on merchant
%MerchID% "%MerchName%" for a batch of \$%MerchBatch%.</p>
All funds are on hold until the review is complete. If you have any
questions or information, please feel free to contact me at %fromPhone
+%
or email me at %fromEMail%.</p>
Thank You,</p>
%fromName%
</body>
</html>
},
) or die "Error creating HTML!\n";
$msg->attach(
Type => 'image/gif',
Id => 'ltrhead.gif',
Path => 'fake_letterhead.gif',
) or die "Error adding image!\n";
open(OUTF,">faxer.mht") or die "Can't open output file";
print OUTF $msg->as_string;
close(OUTF);
$smtp->mail('mmason@npc.net');
##$smtp->to('/name=Roboticus/fax=5551234/<rfax@your.domain>');
$smtp->to('roboticus@your.domain');
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend($msg->as_string);
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit();
Note: I've hacked out a little proprietary stuff, and this is just an experimental (proof of concept) program I wrote some time ago. It functions, but will need some tweaking!
--roboticus | 