NAME
    Email::Send - Simply Sending Email

SYNOPSIS
      use Email::Send;
      send SMTP => <<'__MESSAGE__', $host;
      To: casey@geeknest.com
      From: foo@example.com

      Blah
      __MESSAGE__

      use Email::Send qw[Sendmail]; # preload mailer(s)
      my $email_obj = Email::Simple->new($msg);

      send Sendmail => $email_obj;

      my $mime_message = Simple::MIME->new(...);
      send IO => $mime_message, '-'; # print to STDOUT

      send My::Own::Special::Sender => $msg, %options;

DESCRIPTION
    This module provides a very simple, very clean, very specific interface
    to multiple Email mailers. The goal if this software is to be small and
    simple, easy to use, and easy to extend.

  Mailers
    Mailers are simple to use. You can pre-load mailers when using
    "Email::Send".

      use Email::Send qw[SMTP NNTP];

    If you don't preload a mailer before you use it in the "send" function,
    it will by dynamically loaded. Mailers are named either relative to the
    "Email::Send" namespace, or fully qualified. For example, when using the
    "IO" mailer, "Email::Send" first tries to load "Email::Send::IO". If
    that fails, an attempt is made to load "IO". If that final attempt
    fails, "Email::Send" will throw an exception.

  Functions
    send
          my $rv = send $mailer => $message, @args;

        This function tries to send $message using $mailer. $message and
        $mailer are required arguments. Anything passed in @args is passed
        directly to $mailer. Note that various mailers may require certain
        arguments. Please consult the documentation for any mailer you
        choose to use.

        If "Email::Abstract" is installed, the format of $message is
        specified exactly as anything that Email::Abstract can grok and
        return "as_string". This currently includes most email building
        classes and a properly formatted message as a string. If you have a
        message type that "Email::Abstract" doesn't understand, read its
        documentation for instructions on how to extend it.

        Otherwise you may pass a message as a text string, or as an object
        whose class is "Email::Simple", or inherits from "Email::Simple"
        like "Email::MIME".

  Writing Mailers
    Writing new mailers is very simple. If you want to use a short name when
    calling "send", name your mailer under the "Email::Send" namespace. If
    you don't, the full name will have to be used. A mailer only needs to
    implement a single function, "send". It will be called from
    "Email::Send" exactly like this.

      Your::Sending::Package::send($message, @args);

    $message is an Email::Simple object, @args are the extra arguments
    passed into "Email::Send::send".

    Here's an example of a mailer that sends email to a URL.

      package Email::Send::HTTP::Post;
      use strict;

      use vars qw[$AGENT $URL $FIELD];
      use Carp qw[croak];
      use LWP::UserAgent;

      sub send {
          my ($message, @args);
          if ( @args ) {
              my ($URL, $FIELD) = @args;
              $AGENT = LWP::UserAgent->new;
          }
          croak "Can't send to URL if no URL and field are named"
            unless $URL && $FIELD;
          $AGENT->post($URL => { $FIELD => $message->as_string });
      }

      1;

    This example will keep a UserAgent singleton unless new arguments are
    passed to "send". It is used by calling "Email::Send::send".

      send HTTP::Post => $message, 'http://example.com/incoming', 'message';
      send HTTP::Post => $message2; # uses saved $URL and $FIELD

SEE ALSO
    Email::Abstract, Email::Send::IO, Email::Send::NNTP, Email::Send::Qmail,
    Email::Send::SMTP, Email::Send::Sendmail, perl.

AUTHOR
    Casey West, <casey@geeknest.com>.

COPYRIGHT
      Copyright (c) 2004 Casey West.  All rights reserved.
      This module is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it
      under the same terms as Perl itself.