Re: opinions of mod_perl users on MIME email sending

[John ORourke <suppressed>]

Thanks Frank,

Actually it was reading about Mime::Lite::TT::HTML on your excellent 
tutorial which inspired the question!

I have a framework similar to TT and the like, so I'm thinking of 
creating something like the above module which handles all the Unicode 
stuff, and which allows subclassing for use with different templating 
systems and frameworks.   Something like 
Mime::Lite::Template::<your_framework_here>

I've finally sorted myself out with a PAUSE account so I'll be scouting 
around for the ideal namespace at some point.  I'll be discussing 
off-list with Jonathan Vanasco so do butt in if you're keen to contribute.

I like your idea of submitting it to a different mp process, might well 
be some mileage there - an email submission module with subclasses for 
different submission methods perhaps.  I was using Net::SMTP to send to 
a local relay, but found it could get stuck on DNS lookups for address 
verification.

cheers
John


Frank Wiles wrote:
> On Mon, 18 Jun 2007 16:51:18 +0100
> John ORourke <suppressed> wrote:
>
>   
> > Hi folks,
> >
> > I'm wondering what modules people use for sending email?  At the
> > moment I'm using MIME::Lite but I'm doing several things myself which
> > a bigger module might do for me:
> >
> >  - header encoding - I can't find any modules which will Q- or
> > B-encode headers that have the UTF-8 flag set
> >
> >  - UTF-8 detection on the body to set mime type
> >
> >  - sending with feedback - I'm using Net::SMTP so I can capture
> > result codes and give a variety of error messages instead of just
> > 'failed'. Currently the biggest prob with this is potentially
> > delaying page delivery due to timeouts.
> >     
>
>   Not sure that this helps with your UTF issues, but I've recently
>   started using MIME::Lite::TT and MIME::Lite::TT::HTML and love
>   them.  Wrote a quick tutorial on using them at: 
>
>   http://www.revsys.com/writings/perl/sending-email-with-perl.html
>
>   As others have pointed out you can delay page loading by using
>   Net::SMTP to a remote system.  However, if you say have 5
>   web servers and one SMTP server on your network, there shouldn't
>   be any real delay.  It's when you have to connect up to 
>   smtp.distant-other-country.com that you'll run into serious
>   problems. 
>
>   Safest thing to do is submit your message to another process
>   in mp and have it handle the actual sending, returning errors,
>   etc.  Be it in a queue in some DB or just a simple daemon that
>   handles it. 
>
>   Hope this helps. 
>