Re: Comments on LWP from a Mac user
Tim Bunce (Tim.Bunce@ig.co.uk)
Mon, 7 Aug 1995 12:39:47 +0100
> From: Gisle Aas <aas@oslonett.no>
>
> > The same problem occurs with mailto.pm, which will have to be rewritten
> > with something like MacSMTP, a Perl 4 package that does SMTP.
>
> My plan is to base it on Mail::Send that tries hard to find a suitable way of
> sending mail. It should then able be able to send mail by using SMTP
> directly, but I don't know if it will port to Mac easily.
>
No need to 'port' just 'extend'.
Mail::Send probes the system looking for a mail agent it knows about.
If then returns an object blessed into a class whose methods know how
to talk to that type of agent. I did it this way to make it easy to extend.
I think one of the agent types is SMTP over TCP/IP so, as a fall back,
any machine which has TCP/IP and an SMTP deamon should work (but I think
I never finished that one, I'm not sure if it's been done yet).
People on Macs should grab it, test it and feedback changes. Since I
have so little time Graham Barr <Graham.Barr@tiuk.ti.com> has very
kindly offered to maintain it alongside his Mail modules.