• NAME
• SYNOPSIS
• DESCRIPTION
• new
• Default Headers
• Handy Dandy Methods
• return_headers
• clean_headers
• send
• bulk_send
• _make_general_headers
• COPYRIGHT

NAME

DADA::Mail::Send

SYNOPSIS

        use DADA::Mail::Send

        my $mh = DADA::Mail::Send->new;

Mail Routines for the Dada Mail MLM, UC?

DESCRIPTION

Cool name huh? You have found the heart of the beast, this is where ALL mailings will find themselves, one way or another, let's see if we can get this all straightened out so you can customize this to your heart's delight. Follow me...

First off, there are TWO different ways mailings happen, either by sending one e-mail, using the send() method, or when sending to a group, using the bulk_send() method. This is somewhat of a fib, since mailings called by bulk_send() actually use the send() method to do its dirty work. Well, that is, if you're not using a SMTP feature, then both the send() and bulk_send() have their own way of doing it... kinda.

DADA::Mail::Send uses the Mail::Bulkmail CPAN module, written by James A Thomason III (thomasoniii@yahoo.com) for ALL its SMTP services. And we pretty much love him for that.

PLEASE NOTE That the version of Mail::Bulkmail.pm provided in this distribution IS NOT the same version as is on CPAN, the version in this distribution has 2 bug fixes, one relating to having the correct date applied to messages, the other relating to the fact that there are top level domains with more than 3 letters in 'em.

You create a single address object like so:

        my $mh = DADA::Mail::Send->new(\%list_info); 
        my %mailing = (
        To       => 'justin@skazat.com', 
        From     => 'alex@prolix.nu', 
        Subject  => 'party over here!', 
        Body     => 'yo yo yo, wheres the flava at? we need some action!', 
        ); 
        $mh->bulk_send(%mailing);

Pretty fricken hard eh? Well, it can get a bit harder than that, but thats a pretty stripped down version, If you wanted, you could theoretically use this as a do all mail sender + all the features that are in the Guts.pm module. Its pretty easy to make some crazy... stuff once you've got a handle on it.

new

 my $mh = DADA::Mail::Send->new(-list => $list_info_hashref);

Default Headers

DADA::Mail::Send has a wide variety of both e-mail headers you can send to it. you do this through either the send() or bulksend() methods

• From
  
This should hold where the e-mail is from. Tricky, eh?

example:

        To => '"Justin Simoni" <justin@skazat.com>',

• To
  
Mail Header, This should hold where the e-mail is going to,

example:

        From =>  '"Alex Skazat" <alex@skazat.com>',

• Bcc
  
This is used as a ``Blank Carbon Copy'', meaning a copygoes to whoever is specified in the Bcc header, without it showing up in the To's header. DO NOT USE THIS FOR BULK MAILING Send one 100,000 emails, some poor fella is going to get 100,000 copies

example: same as the To or From

• Return-Path
  
Specifies what address an e-mail will get sent to when someone replies to an e-mail address. Sometimes works, sometimes doesn't, very fluky, better to set with the sendmail '-f' flag

example:

        'Return-Path' => 'justin@skazat.com',

• Reply-To
  
Very similar to the Return-Path,
• Errors-To
  
Mail Header, specifies where errors, like if the e-mail address you're trying to send isn't real, or their mailbox is full, a message supposed to use this address to mail the error to.

example:

        'Errors-To' => 'errors@skazat.com',

• Precedence
  
Mail Header, sets the so called 'precedence' of a bulk message, the valid values are list, bulk and junk. Certain e-mail clients may use this to filter out spam, or list messages,

example:

        Precedence => 'junk',

default is list.

• Content-type
  
sets the content type of the email message, something like text/plain or text/html, it tells the mail reader how to show the mail message. This is also where you can specify certain character sets, since not everyone uses english as their first language,

like:

        Content-type => 'text/html; charset=us-ascii';

• Content-Disposition
  
(ah hem) ``Whether a MIME body part is to be shown inline or is an attachment; can also indicate a suggested filename for use when saving an attachment to a file.''

example:

        'Content-Disposition =>  'inline; filename="index.html"',

• Content-Transfer-Encoding
  
(ah hem) ``Coding method used in a MIME message body.''

example:

        'Content-Transfer-Encoding' =>  7bit',

you could also say 'base64', '8bit' or 'quote-printable'

• MIME-Version
  
this specifies what MIME version your using, usually this is set as 1.0, without setting a MIMIE version HTML e-mails don't come out well,

example:

        'MIME-Version' => '1.0',

• List
  
This can be a mail header, Dada Mail uses it internally to say what list is sending bulk messages, the list name is important to fetch all sorts of things, write temp files, etc,

example List => 'my list',

• Mailing List Headers
  
Theres a whole slew of Mailing List related headers, that are pretty self-explainatory:

List-Archive

List-Digest

List-Help

List-ID

List-Owner

List-Post

List-Subscribe

List-Unsubscribe

List-URL

• References
  
this tag is used by popular Mail readers to figure out how different messages are related.

This isn't used in Dada Mail, but it may one day for its archives, this usually holds a weird numerical value,

• In-Reply-To
  
Again, this is used by mail readers to keep track of e-mail messages.
• Subject
  
The subject of your message

example:

        Subject => 'mail server is about to explode',

• Body
  
This is the body message, usually I make the value before hand, and stick the variable in, like this:

        my $Body = <<EOF 
        
        Help! 
        I'm trapped in a peanut butter factory, 
        The only way I can communicate with the 
        real world is by sending messages inside
        peanut butter containers. 
        
                Bob, 
        EOF
        ;

        Body => $Body,

This really isn't a mail header, but this is how you get the Body of a message to Dada Mail =back

Please Note

In earlier versions of this module, certain key/value pairs were passed to this script to change the way mailings were done. No more. Settings that afect mailings are either passed in the hash ref you passed to new() or, by some handy dandy methods

Handy Dandy Methods

These methods are used to change how Dada Mail sends mostly Bulk messages, these are the fun ones,

• do_not_send_to
  
This ones kinda cool, give it a reference to an array of addresses you do not want sent the email.

you could also specify your entire black list. The possibilities, kids, are endless.

example: $mh->do_not_send_to(['justin@example.com', 'alex@example.com']);

This array ref is then passed to MailingList::*::create_bulk_sending_file function that makes the actual list to send to. Basically create_bulk_sending_file weeds out the emails in a list we don't want to send to

• bulk_test
  
This is a magical paramater that, when changed to one, will only send bulk messages to the list owner. ``What's the point of that?'' well, it'll set up DADA::Mail::Send as if it was sending a bulk message, instread of being in ``send one message mode'' This makes sure all your configs are peachy keen. 1 for test, nothing for no test,

return_headers

        my %headers = $mh->return_headers($string);

This is a funky little subroutine that'll take a string that holds the header of a mail message, and gives you back a hash of all the headers separated, each key in the hash holds a different header, so if I say

        my $mh = DADA::Mail::Send -> new(); 
        my %headers = $mh -> return_headers($header_glob);

I can then say:

        my $to = $headers{To};

This subroutine is used quite a bit to take out put from the MIME::Lite module, which allows you to get the whole header with its header_to_string() subroutine and hack it up into something Dada Mail can use.

clean_headers

        %squeaky_clean_headers = $mh->clean_headers(%these_be_the_heaers);

this method does a little munging to the mail headers for better absorbtion; basically, it changes the case of some of the mail headers so everyone's on the same page

send

This method sends an email, it takes a hash of the mail headers, plus the body of the message:

bulk_send

Sends a message to everyone on your list, (that you specified, by passing a hash ref with the list settings.. right?)

Takes the same arguments as send()

returns (for now) the Message-ID of the message being sent.

You can use this as the key for an archived message (let's say)

_make_general_headers

(private)

return a hash containing:

• From
  
Currently makes From: with only the list owner's address - should be changed in the future
• Reply-To
  
Set to whatever From: is set to
• Errors-To
  
Off, by default, gets set to the admin_email if print_errors_to_header is set to '1'
• Message-ID
  
This requires Net::Domain (included with the distro - I hope this doesn't break things...)

Format:

# time + random number + sender, woot!

'time' is whatever format is created by DADA::App::Guts::message_id() This is done for backwards compatibility sake. Example:

        Message-ID: <20031227013306.20240243.user@domain.com>

It's easily seen that this was sent at 12/27/2003

COPYRIGHT

Copyright (c) 1999 - 2005 Justin Simoni me@justinsimoni.com http://justinsimoni.com All rights reserved.

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version.

This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details.

You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA.