Mail Attachement

Chady has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hi..
I am working on a webmail interface.. I give the users a virtual e-mail, that is really forwarded to their original e-mail address.. now I need to make an interface so that they can send from this virtual e-mail address I'm giving. I made the interface quite allright, but I still need to know how to make an attachement to the e-mail. is there an easy way to do it using the sendmail porgram?
I downloaded Simon Tneoh Chee-Boon's FileUpload.pm this way I can upload the file to a directory I specify, and then put a link to it in the sent mail, but I want it to go through with the e-mail.
any tips?

Thanx in advance

Chady | http://chady.net/

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Re: Mail Attachement by Corion (Patriarch) on Dec 26, 2000 at 14:55 UTC
The module you want to install from http://www.cpan.org is `MIME::Lite` or, if you need more than what it provides, `MIME::Tools`, which includes everything and the kitchen sink. CPAN also provides you with various mail modules. To find `MIME::Lite`, I used the CPAN nodelet, which is an interface to http://search.cpan.org.	[reply]
Re: Mail Attachement by chipmunk (Parson) on Dec 26, 2000 at 19:03 UTC
I second Corion's recommendations for MIME modules from CPAN. Even if you find out that it is easy to send an attachment with sendmail, I hope you will consider using a CPAN module for sending the mail too (with or without an attachment). I prefer the MailTools distribution; other choices include Mail::Sender and Mail::Sendmail.	[reply]
Re: Mail Attachement by merlyn (Sage) on Dec 26, 2000 at 20:03 UTC
That's almost exactly what I did for one of my WT columns. Go see. -- Randal L. Schwartz, Perl hacker	[reply]
Re: Mail Attachement by Chady (Priest) on Dec 27, 2000 at 02:51 UTC
Ok guys.. so I went and downloaded the MIME tools, but I cannot install them. I am using a free hosting service and do not have telnet access.. so I cannot install anything on their servers... I'm really feeling dumb here... ;) Chady \| http://chady.net/	[reply]
Re: Re: Mail Attachement by turnstep (Parson) on Dec 27, 2000 at 22:19 UTC
Mail::Sender for one does not require any priviledges to intall it - just make sure it is in the right path and go ahead and use it. Since you have no telnet access, you will have to add `use lib 'path/to/where/you/stuck/Mail::Sender'` [download] at the top of your script. Make sure you have a Maildirectory with Sender.pm inside it, then use the lib line above to point to the directory in which the Mail directory resides.	[reply] [d/l]
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