Authen::Simple::SMTP3pm

Usage

    use Authen::Simple::SMTP;
    
    my $smtp = Authen::Simple::FTP->new( 
        host => 'smtp.company.com'
    );
    
    if ( $smtp->authenticate( $username, $password ) ) {
        # successfull authentication
    }
    
    # or as a mod_perl Authen handler
    
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::Apache
    PerlModule Authen::Simple::SMTP
    PerlSetVar AuthenSimpleSMTP_host "smtp.company.com"
    <Location /protected>
      PerlAuthenHandler Authen::Simple::SMTP
      AuthType          Basic
      AuthName          "Protected Area"
      Require           valid-user
    </Location>

Overview

Authenticate against a SMTP service.

Methods

•

new

This method takes a hash of parameters. The following options are valid:

•

host

Connection host, can be a hostname or IP number. Defaults to "localhost".

    host => 'ftp.company.com'
    host => '10.0.0.1'

•

port

Connection port, default to 25.

    port => 25

•

timeout

Connection timeout, defaults to 60.

    timeout => 60

•

log

Any object that supports "debug", "info", "error" and "warn".

    log => Log::Log4perl->get_logger('Authen::Simple::SMTP')

•

authenticate( $username, $password )

Returns true on success and false on failure.