use strict;
use warnings;
use Tk; 
use MIME::Lite;

my $MW = MainWindow->new(-background=>'white'); 
$MW->geometry('400x350+250+100');


my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                 From     =>'youremail@netzero.com',
                 To       =>'youremail@email.com',
                 Subject  =>'Helloooooo, USER!',
                 Data     =>"This is a test email from my Perl/Tk prog
+ram.  Enjoy!"
                 );
                 
                 
$MW->Button(-text=>'Test Email to Parent', -background=>'green', -font
+=>'Arial 14', -foreground=>'blue', -command=>sub{$msg->send;} )->pack
+(-side=>'left', -anchor=>'w', -padx=>'50');

MainLoop;
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'sendmail' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

I thought 'sendmail' was a unix program. I am on a Windows system.

Thanks

Maybe you want to change how messages are sent?

You will still need a working SMTP server that is willing to accept your email - most likely your ISP provides one for you.

I thought about this Corion. But I want this to work on other users machines. I dont' want to hardcode my SMTP server in my program and then it doesn't work for another user.

Any suggestions on making smtp universal to all my users?

You'll need to change that, then :-) Further down in the doc, there's this section:

Change how messages are sent

    ### Do something like this in your 'main':
    if ($I_DONT_HAVE_SENDMAIL) {
       MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "smtp.myisp.net", Timeout=>60);
    }

    ### Now this will do the right thing:
    $msg->send;         ### will now use Net::SMTP as shown above
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Hope that points you in the right direction :-)

Update: Wow. Two other answers as I was typing up this one :-D

Perhaps a read of Change how messages are sent from the documentation would be worth while. Sendmail is the default mechanism for sending email within this module. Again, this is all in the documentation.

Hope this helps

Martin

And what if I'm looking for a different approach?

I want a link that do the same as sendto:mymail@server.com. In other words, that call the standard mail program of the user.

thanks,

memo.garciasir@gmail.com

You could put hyperlinks in your Text widgets, that run the mail program, when clicking on the hypertext link. An example, without the actual mailcode....which should be forked off or threaded.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use Tk;

my $mw = MainWindow->new( -title => "hyperlinks" );
my $t   = $mw->Scrolled('Text')->pack;
my $tag = "tag000";

foreach (<DATA>) {
    chomp;
    my (@items) = split (/(http:\S+)/,$_);

    foreach (@items) {
        if (/(http:\S+)/) {
            $t->insert( 'end', $_, $tag );
            $t->tagConfigure( $tag, -foreground => 'blue' );
            $t->tagBind( $tag,
                '<Any-Enter>' => [ \&manipulate_link, $tag, 'raised', 
+'hand2' ]
            );
            $t->tagBind( $tag,
                '<Any-Leave>' => [ \&manipulate_link, $tag, 'flat', 'x
+term' ] );
            $t->tagBind( $tag,
                '<Button-1>' => [ \&manipulate_link, $tag, 'sunken' ] 
+);
            $t->tagBind( $tag,
                '<ButtonRelease-1>' =>
                  [ \&manipulate_link, $tag, 'raised', undef, \&printm
+e ] );
            $tag++;
        }
        else {
            $t->insert( 'end', $_ );
        }
    }
    $t->insert( 'end', "\n" );
}
MainLoop;

sub printme {
    local ($,) = " ";
    print "printme:", @_, "\n";
}

sub manipulate_link {

    # manipulate the link as you press the mouse key

    my ($a)      = shift;
    my ($tag)    = shift;
    my ($relief) = shift;
    my ($cursor) = shift;
    my ($after)  = shift;

    # by configuring the relief (to simulate a button press)
    $a->tagConfigure( $tag, -relief => $relief, -borderwidth => 1 );

    # by changing the cursor between hand and xterm
    $a->configure( -cursor => $cursor ) if ($cursor);

    # and by scheduling the specified action to run "soon"
    if ($after) {
        my ($s) = $a->get( $a->tagRanges($tag) );
        $mw->after( 200, [ $after, $a, $s, $tag, @_ ] ) if ($after);
    }
}
__DATA__
Hi there.  This is text.
THis is more text but http://this.is.a/hyperlink in a line.
http://this.is.another/hyperlink followed by
http://this.is.a.third/hyperlink
__END__
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I'm not really a human, but I play one on earth My Petition to the Great Cosmic Conciousness

on windows there is no sendmail program(unless you're
on cygwin but probably you're not)
use Email::Send
for sending email ,it should work ok.

But you still need to do some configuration for the SMTP host and maybe the authentication.

Another possibility is to send mail via the web browser, in the hope that the user already configured the browser to send mail. The downside is that it is necessary to acknowledge the mail outside of the Tk program. For example, this works on my Unix system with seamonkey:

seamonkey 'mailto:bla@example.com?subject=Subject&body=the%20body%20of
+%20the%20mail'
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