Net-SMTP

A pure Raku implementation of a SMTP client.

This module includes two different modes of operation: raw mode (sending raw SMTP commands), and a simple mode (just send this email!).

Example Usage

# raw interface
my $client = Net::SMTP.new(:server("your.server.here"), :port(587), :debug, :raw);
$client.get-response; # 220 your.server.here ...
$client.ehlo; # 250-STARTTLS\r\n250 ...
$client.mail-from('[email protected]'); # 250 OK
$client.rcpt-to('[email protected]'); # 250 OK
$client.data; # 354 Enter message
$client.payload($email); # 250 OK
$client.quit; # 221 closing connection

#simple interface
my $client = Net::SMTP.new(:server("your.server.here"), :port(587), :debug);
$client.auth($username, $password);
$client.send($from, @to, $message);
$client.send($message); # find From/To/CC/(BCC)? lines
$client.quit;

Simple mode methods

Note that all of these methods should return a true value on success or a Failure object if something goes wrong.

• new(:$server!, :$port = 25, :$hostname, :$debug, :$socket, :$ssl, :$starttls, :$plain)

  Creates a new SMTP client and opens the connection to the server.

  $server is required and defines what server to connect to. Note that this does not do a MX lookup - if you need to find the MX server, use Net::DNS or similar.

  $port defaults to 25, and defines what port to connect to on the remote server.

  $hostname defaults to calling $*KERNEL.hostname(), and determines the hostname given to the server in the initial HELO or EHLO message

  $debug when set to a true value, will print the SMTP traffic to stderr.

  $socket allows you to define a class other than IO::Socket::INET to be used for network communication. If you pass a defined object, Net::SMTP will assume it is a ready-to-use socket.

  By default, this module will use STARTTLS if the server reveals that it is supported, otherwise it uses plain-text communication. To override this, you can pass one of $ssl for an initial SSL connection, $starttls to force STARTTLS usage, or $plain to disable transport encryption completely.

• auth-methods()

  Returns a list of auth methods that are both supported by the server and by this module.

• auth-methods-raw()

  Returns a raw list of authenticatio methods supported by the server. Response is a space-seperated string.

• auth($username, $password, :@methods, :@disallow, :$force)

  Authenticates with the SMTP server with the given password.

  Currently supports CRAM-MD5, LOGIN, PLAIN.

  You can set @methods to explicitly declare which methods you would like to try, in your order of preference. If not set, @methods will default to the result of auth-methods().

  @disallow can be set to disable authentication methods from being attempted (to disable the insecure auth types, for example).

  $force, if set, means that this module won't check the list of server supported authentication types - it will simply assume the server supports everything. This is possibly useful if you have an SMTP server that doesn't support EHLO, but still supports authentication.

• send($from, $to, $message, :$keep-going)

  Sends an email from; and to keep-going is set, will attempt to send the message even if one of the recipients fails.

• send($message, :$keep-going)

  Attempts to extract from and to information from the email headers (using Email::Simple), and then calls the above send method.

  Note that if you pass a Email::Simple or Email::MIME object, this method will not create a new Email::Simple, it will just use what you pass.

• quit

  Closes the connection to the server.

Raw mode methods

• new(:raw, :$server!, :$port = 25, :$debug, :$socket)

  Creates a new SMTP client and opens the connection to the server.

  $server is required and defines what server to connect to. Note that this does not do a MX lookup - if you need to find the MX server, use Net::DNS or similar.

  $port defaults to 25, and defines what port to connect to on the remote server.

  $debug when set to a true value, will print the SMTP traffic to stderr.

  $socket allows you to define a class other than IO::Socket::INET to be used for network communication. If you pass a defined object, Net::SMTP will assume it is a ready-to-use socket.

• get-response

• send($stuff)

• ehlo($hostname = $*KERNEL.hostname())

• helo($hostname = $*KERNEL.hostname())

• starttls()

• switch-to-ssl()

• auth-login($username, $password)

• auth-plain($username, $password)

• mail-from($address)

• rcpt-to($address)

• data

• payload($mail)

• rset

• quit

AUTHOR

Andrew Egeler

Source can be located at: https://github.com/raku-community-modules/Net-SMTP . Comments and Pull Requests are welcome.

COPYRIGHT AND LICENSE

Copyright 2014 - 2021 Andrew Egeler

Copyright 2022 Raku Community

This library is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the Artistic License 2.0.