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NAME
    Mail::Transport::Mailx - transmit messages using external mailx program

INHERITANCE
     Mail::Transport::Mailx
       is a Mail::Transport::Send
       is a Mail::Transport
       is a Mail::Reporter

SYNOPSIS
     my $sender = Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(...);
     $sender->send($message);

DESCRIPTION
    Implements mail transport using the external programs 'mailx', "Mail", or 'mail'. When
    instantiated, the mailer will look for any of these binaries in specific system directories, and
    the first program found is taken.

    WARNING: There are many security issues with mail and mailx. DO NOT USE these commands to send
    messages which contains data derived from any external source!!!

    Under Linux, freebsd, and bsdos the "mail", "Mail", and "mailx" names are just links to the same
    binary. The implementation is very primitive, pre-MIME standard, what may cause many headers to
    be lost. For these platforms (and probably for other platforms as well), you can better not use
    this transport mechanism.

    Extends "DESCRIPTION" in Mail::Transport::Send.

METHODS
    Extends "METHODS" in Mail::Transport::Send.

  Constructors
    Extends "Constructors" in Mail::Transport::Send.

    Mail::Transport::Mailx->new(%options)
         -Option    --Defined in     --Default
          executable  Mail::Transport  undef
          hostname    Mail::Transport  'localhost'
          interval    Mail::Transport  30
          log         Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
          password    Mail::Transport  undef
          port        Mail::Transport  undef
          proxy       Mail::Transport  undef
          retry       Mail::Transport  <false>
          style                        <autodetect>
          timeout     Mail::Transport  120
          trace       Mail::Reporter   'WARNINGS'
          username    Mail::Transport  undef
          via         Mail::Transport  'mailx'

        executable => FILENAME
        hostname => HOSTNAME|ARRAY
        interval => SECONDS
        log => LEVEL
        password => STRING
        port => INTEGER
        proxy => PATH
        retry => NUMBER|undef
        style => 'BSD'|'RFC822'
          There are two version of the "mail" program. The newest accepts RFC822 messages, and
          automagically collect information about where the message is to be send to. The BSD style
          mail command predates MIME, and expects lines which start with a '~' (tilde) to specify
          destinations and such. This field is autodetect, however on some platforms both versions
          of "mail" can live (like various Linux distributions).

        timeout => SECONDS
        trace => LEVEL
        username => STRING
        via => CLASS|NAME

  Sending mail
    Extends "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send.

    $obj->destinations( $message, [$address|ARRAY] )
        Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

    $obj->putContent($message, $fh, %options)
        Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

    $obj->send($message, %options)
        Inherited, see "Sending mail" in Mail::Transport::Send

    $obj->trySend($message, %options)

  Server connection
    Extends "Server connection" in Mail::Transport::Send.

    $obj->findBinary( $name, [@directories] )
        Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

    $obj->remoteHost()
        Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

    $obj->retry()
        Inherited, see "Server connection" in Mail::Transport

  Error handling
    Extends "Error handling" in Mail::Transport::Send.

    $obj->AUTOLOAD()
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->addReport($object)
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
    Mail::Transport::Mailx->defaultTrace( [$level]|[$loglevel, $tracelevel]|[$level, $callback] )
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->errors()
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
    Mail::Transport::Mailx->log( [$level, [$strings]] )
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->logPriority($level)
    Mail::Transport::Mailx->logPriority($level)
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->logSettings()
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->notImplemented()
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->report( [$level] )
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->reportAll( [$level] )
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->trace( [$level] )
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

    $obj->warnings()
        Inherited, see "Error handling" in Mail::Reporter

  Cleanup
    Extends "Cleanup" in Mail::Transport::Send.

    $obj->DESTROY()
        Inherited, see "Cleanup" in Mail::Reporter

DIAGNOSTICS
    Warning: Message has no destination
        It was not possible to figure-out where the message is intended to go to.

    Error: Package $package does not implement $method.
        Fatal error: the specific package (or one of its superclasses) does not implement this
        method where it should. This message means that some other related classes do implement this
        method however the class at hand does not. Probably you should investigate this and probably
        inform the author of the package.

    Warning: Resent group does not specify a destination
        The message which is sent is the result of a bounce (for instance created with
        Mail::Message::bounce()), and therefore starts with a "Received" header field. With the
        "bounce", the new destination(s) of the message are given, which should be included as
        "Resent-To", "Resent-Cc", and "Resent-Bcc".

        The "To", "Cc", and "Bcc" header information is only used if no "Received" was found. That
        seems to be the best explanation of the RFC.

        As alternative, you may also specify the "to" option to some of the senders (for instance
        Mail::Transport::SMTP::send(to) to overrule any information found in the message itself
        about the destination.

    Error: Sending via mailx mailer $program failed: $! ($?)
        Mailx (in some shape: there are many different implementations) did start accepting
        messages, but did not succeed sending it.

SEE ALSO
    This module is part of Mail-Transport distribution version 3.005, built on July 22, 2020.
    Website: http://perl.overmeer.net/CPAN/

LICENSE
    Copyrights 2001-2020 by [Mark Overmeer]. For other contributors see ChangeLog.

    This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as
    Perl itself. See http://dev.perl.org/licenses/