package Email::Stuff; =head1 NAME Email::Stuff - A more casual approach to creating and sending Email:: emails =head1 SYNOPSIS # Prepare the message my $body = <<'AMBUSH_READY'; Dear Santa I have killed Bun Bun. Yes, I know what you are thinking... but it was actually a total accident. I was in a crowded line at a BayWatch signing, and I tripped, and stood on his head. I know. Oops! :/ So anyways, I am willing to sell you the body for $1 million dollars. Be near the pinhole to the Dimension of Pain at midnight. Alias AMBUSH_READY # Create and send the email in one shot Email::Stuff->from ('cpan@ali.as' ) ->to ('santa@northpole.org' ) ->bcc ('bunbun@sluggy.com' ) ->text_body($body ) ->attach (io('dead_bunbun_faked.gif')->all, filename => 'dead_bunbun_proof.gif') ->send; =head1 DESCRIPTION B Email::Stuff, as its name suggests, is a fairly casual module used to email "stuff" to people using the most common methods. It is a high-level module designed for ease of use when doing a very specific common task, but implemented on top of the tight and correct Email:: modules. Email::Stuff is typically used to build emails and send them in a single statement, as seen in the synopsis. And it is certain only for use when creating and sending emails. As such, it contains no email parsing capability, and little to no modification support. To re-iterate, this is very much a module for those "slap it together and fire it off" situations, but that still has enough grunt behind the scenes to do things properly. =head2 Default Mailer Although it cannot be relied upon to work, the default behaviour is to use sendmail to send mail, if you don't provide the mail send channel with either the C method, or as an argument to C. The use of sendmail as the default mailer is consistent with the behaviour of the L module itself. =head2 Why use this? Why not just use L or L? After all, this just adds another layer of stuff around those. Wouldn't using them directly be better? Certainly, if you know EXACTLY what you are doing. The docs are clear enough, but you really do need to have an understanding of the structure of MIME emails. This structure is going to be different depending on whether you have text body, HTML, both, with or without an attachment etc. Then there's brevity... compare the following roughly equivalent code. First, the Email::Stuff way. Email::Stuff->to('Simon Cozens') ->from('Santa@northpole.org') ->text_body("You've been a good boy this year. No coal for you.") ->attach_file('choochoo.gif') ->send; And now doing it directly with a knowledge of what your attachment is, and what the correct MIME structure is. use Email::MIME; use Email::MIME::Creator; use Email::Send; use IO::All; send SMTP => Email::MIME->create( header => [ To => 'simon@somewhere.jp', From => 'santa@northpole.org', ], parts => [ Email::MIME->create( body => "You've been a good boy this year. No coal for you." ), Email::MIME->create( body => io('choochoo.gif'), attributes => { filename => 'choochoo.gif', content_type => 'image/gif', }, ), ], ); Again, if you know MIME well, and have the patience to manually code up the L structure, go do that. Email::Stuff, as the name suggests, solves one case and one case only. Generate some stuff, and email it to somewhere. As conveniently as possible. DWIM, but do it as thinly as possible and use the solid Email:: modules underneath. =head1 COOKBOOK Here is another example (maybe plural later) of how you can use Email::Stuff's brevity to your advantage. =head2 Custom Alerts package SMS::Alert; sub new { shift()->SUPER::new(@_) ->from('monitor@my.website') # Of course, we could have pulled these from # $MyConfig->{support_tech} or something similar. ->to('0416181595@sms.gateway') ->using('SMTP', Host => '123.123.123.123'); } package My::Code; unless ( $Server->restart ) { # Notify the admin on call that a server went down and failed # to restart. SMS::Alert->subject("Server $Server failed to restart cleanly") ->send; } =head1 METHODS As you can see from the synopsis, all methods that B the Email::Stuff object returns the object, and thus most normal calls are chainable. However, please note that C, and the group of methods that do not change the Email::Stuff object B return the object, and thus B chainable. =cut use 5.005; use strict; use Carp (); use File::Basename (); use Params::Util '_INSTANCE'; use Email::MIME (); use Email::MIME::Creator (); use Email::Send (); use prefork 'File::Type'; use vars qw{$VERSION}; BEGIN { $VERSION = '2.100'; } ##################################################################### # Constructor and Accessors =head2 new Creates a new, empty, Email::Stuff object. =cut sub new { my $class = ref $_[0] || $_[0]; my $self = bless { send_using => [ 'Sendmail' ], # mailer => undef, parts => [], email => Email::MIME->create( header => [], parts => [], ), }, $class; $self; } sub _self { my $either = shift; ref($either) ? $either : $either->new; } =head2 header_names Returns, as a list, all of the headers currently set for the Email For backwards compatibility, this method can also be called as B[headers]. =cut sub header_names { shift()->{email}->header_names; } sub headers { shift()->{email}->header_names; ## This is now header_names, headers is depreciated } =head2 parts Returns, as a list, the L parts for the Email =cut sub parts { grep { defined $_ } @{shift()->{parts}}; } ##################################################################### # Header Methods =head2 header $header => $value Adds a single named header to the email. Note I said B not set, so you can just keep shoving the headers on. But of course, if you want to use to overwrite a header, you're stuffed. Because B =cut sub header { my $self = shift()->_self; $self->{email}->header_set(shift, shift) ? $self : undef; } =head2 to $address Adds a To: header to the email =cut sub to { my $self = shift()->_self; $self->{email}->header_set(to => shift) ? $self : undef; } =head2 from $address Adds (yes ADDS, you only do it once) a From: header to the email =cut sub from { my $self = shift()->_self; $self->{email}->header_set(from => shift) ? $self : undef; } =head2 cc $address Adds a Cc: header to the email =cut sub cc { my $self = shift()->_self; $self->{email}->header_set(cc => shift) ? $self : undef; } =head2 bcc $address Adds a Bcc: header to the email =cut sub bcc { my $self = shift()->_self; $self->{email}->header_set(bcc => shift) ? $self : undef; } =head2 subject $text Adds a subject to the email =cut sub subject { my $self = shift()->_self; $self->{email}->header_set(subject => shift) ? $self : undef; } ##################################################################### # Body and Attachments =head2 text_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ] Sets the text body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for you. You may overload any as needed. See L for the actual headers to use. =cut sub text_body { my $self = shift()->_self; my $body = defined $_[0] ? shift : return undef; my %attr = ( # Defaults content_type => 'text/plain', charset => 'us-ascii', format => 'flowed', # Params overwrite them @_, ); # Create the part in the text slot $self->{parts}->[0] = Email::MIME->create( attributes => \%attr, body => $body, ); $self; } =head2 html_body $body [, $header => $value, ... ] Set the HTML body of the email. Unless specified, all the appropriate headers are set for you. You may overload any as needed. See L for the actual headers to use. =cut sub html_body { my $self = shift()->_self; my $body = defined $_[0] ? shift : return undef; my %attr = ( # Defaults content_type => 'text/html', charset => 'us-ascii', # Params overwrite them @_, ); # Create the part in the HTML slot $self->{parts}->[1] = Email::MIME->create( attributes => \%attr, body => $body, ); $self; } =head2 attach $contents [, $header => $value, ... ] Adds an attachment to the email. The first argument is the file contents followed by (as for text_body and html_body) the list of headers to use. Email::Stuff should TRY to guess the headers right, but you may wish to provide them anyway to be sure. Encoding is Base64 by default. =cut sub attach { my $self = shift()->_self; my $body = defined $_[0] ? shift : return undef; my %attr = ( # Cheap defaults encoding => 'base64', # Params overwrite them @_, ); # The more expensive defaults if needed unless ( $attr{content_type} ) { require File::Type; $attr{content_type} = File::Type->checktype_contents($body); } ### MORE? # Determine the slot to put it at my $slot = scalar @{$self->{parts}}; $slot = 3 if $slot < 3; # Create the part in the attachment slot $self->{parts}->[$slot] = Email::MIME->create( attributes => \%attr, body => $body, ); $self; } =head2 attach_file $file [, $header => $value, ... ] Attachs a file that already exists on the filesystem to the email. C will auto-detect the MIME type, and use the file's current name when attaching. =cut sub attach_file { my $self = shift; my $body_arg = shift; my $name = undef; my $body = undef; # Support IO::All::File arguments if ( Params::Util::_INSTANCE($body_arg, 'IO::All::File') ) { $name = $body_arg->name; $body = $body_arg->all; # Support file names } elsif ( defined $body_arg and -f $body_arg ) { $name = $body_arg; $body = _slurp( $body_arg ) or return undef; # That's it } else { return undef; } # Clean the file name $name = File::Basename::basename($name) or return undef; # Now attach as normal $self->attach( $body, name => $name, filename => $name, @_ ); } # Provide a simple _slurp implementation sub _slurp { my $file = shift; local $/ = undef; local *SLURP; open( SLURP, "<$file" ) or return undef; my $source = ; close( SLURP ) or return undef; \$source; } =head2 using $drivername, @options The C method specifies the L driver that you want to use to send the email, and any options that need to be passed to the driver at the time that we send the mail. Alternatively, you can pass a complete mailer object (which must be an L object) and it will be used as is. =cut sub using { my $self = shift; if ( @_ ) { # Change the mailer if ( _INSTANCE($_[0], 'Email::Send') ) { $self->{mailer} = shift; delete $self->{send_using}; } else { $self->{send_using} = [ @_ ]; delete $self->{mailer}; $self->mailer; } } $self; } ##################################################################### # Output Methods =head2 email Creates and returns the full L object for the email. =cut sub email { my $self = shift; my @parts = $self->parts; ### Lyle Hopkins, code added to Fix single part, and multipart/alternative problems if ( scalar( @{ $self->{parts} } ) >= 3 ) { ## multipart/mixed $self->{email}->parts_set( \@parts ); } ## Check we actually have any parts elsif ( scalar( @{ $self->{parts} } ) ) { if ( _INSTANCE($parts[0], 'Email::MIME') && _INSTANCE($parts[1], 'Email::MIME') ) { ## multipart/alternate $self->{email}->header_set( 'Content-Type' => 'multipart/alternative' ); $self->{email}->parts_set( \@parts ); } ## As @parts is $self->parts without the blanks, we only need check $parts[0] elsif ( _INSTANCE($parts[0], 'Email::MIME') ) { ## single part text/plain _transfer_headers( $self->{email}, $parts[0] ); $self->{email} = $parts[0]; } } $self->{email}; } # Support coercion to an Email::MIME sub __as_Email_MIME { shift()->email } # Quick any routine sub _any (&@) { my $f = shift; return if ! @_; for (@_) { return 1 if $f->(); } return 0; } # header transfer from one object to another sub _transfer_headers { # $_[0] = from, $_[1] = to my @headers_move = $_[0]->header_names; my @headers_skip = $_[1]->header_names; foreach my $header_name (@headers_move) { next if _any { $_ eq $header_name } @headers_skip; my @values = $_[0]->header($header_name); $_[1]->header_set( $header_name, @values ); } } =head2 as_string Returns the string form of the email. Identical to (and uses behind the scenes) Email::MIME-Eas_string. =cut sub as_string { shift()->email->as_string; } =head2 send Sends the email via L. =cut sub send { my $self = shift; $self->using(@_) if @_; # Arguments are passed to ->using my $email = $self->email or return undef; $self->mailer->send( $email ); } sub _driver { my $self = shift; $self->{send_using}->[0]; } sub _options { my $self = shift; my $options = $#{$self->{send_using}}; @{$self->{send_using}}[1 .. $options]; } =head2 mailer If you need to interact with it directly, the C method returns the L mailer object that will be used to send the email. Returns an L object, or dies if the driver is not available. =cut sub mailer { my $self = shift; return $self->{mailer} if $self->{mailer}; my $driver = $self->_driver; $self->{mailer} = Email::Send->new( { mailer => $driver, mailer_args => [ $self->_options ], } ); unless ( $self->{mailer}->mailer_available($driver, $self->_options) ) { Carp::croak("Driver $driver is not available"); } $self->{mailer}; } ##################################################################### # Legacy compatibility sub To { shift->to(@_) } sub From { shift->from(@_) } sub CC { shift->cc(@_) } sub BCC { shift->bcc(@_) } sub Subject { shift->subject(@_) } sub Email { shift->email(@_) } 1; =head1 TO DO =over 4 =item * Fix a number of bugs still likely to exist =item * Write more tests. =item * Add any additional small bit of automation that arn't too expensive =back =head1 SUPPORT All bugs should be filed via the CPAN bug tracker at L =head1 AUTHORS B: Ricardo Signes C Adam Kennedy Eadamk@cpan.orgE =head1 SEE ALSO L, L, L =head1 COPYRIGHT Copyright 2004 - 2008 Adam Kennedy. This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself. The full text of the license can be found in the LICENSE file included with this module. =cut