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Authen::Simple::SMTP(3) User Contributed Perl Documentation Authen::Simple::SMTP(3)

Authen::Simple::SMTP - Simple SMTP authentication

    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>

Authenticate against a SMTP service.

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.

Authen::Simple.

Net::SMTP.

Christian Hansen "ch@ngmedia.com"

This program is free software, you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the same terms as Perl itself.
2022-04-09 perl v5.32.1

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