SYNOPSIS

     use Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained;
     my $mailer = Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained->new(
            'your.mail.host',
            Hello   =>      'some.host.name',
            Port    =>      25, #redundant
            User    =>      'emailguy',
            Password=>      's3cr3t');
     $mailer->mail('emailguy@your.mail.host');
     $mailer->to('someonecool@somewhere.else');
     $mailer->data;
     $mailer->datasend("Sent thru TLS!");
     $mailer->dataend;
     $mailer->quit;

DESCRIPTION

    DEPRECATED!, Please use Net::SMTPS instead.

    Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained is forked from Net::SMTP::TLS. blame Evan
    Carroll for the idea. :)

    Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained is a TLS and AUTH capable SMTP client
    which offers an interface that users will find familiar from Net::SMTP.
    Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained implements a subset of the methods
    provided by that module, but certainly not (yet) a complete mirror
    image of that API.

    The methods supported by Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained are used in the
    above example. Though self explanatory for the most part, please see
    the perldoc for Net::SMTP if you are unclear.

    The differences in the methods provided are as follows:

      The mail method does not take the options list taken by Net::SMTP

      The to method also does not take options, and is the only method
      available to set the recipient (unlike the many synonyms provided by
      Net::SMTP).

      The constructor takes a limited number of Net::SMTP's parameters. The
      constructor for Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained takes the following (in
      addition to the hostname of the mail server, which must be the first
      parameter and is not explicitly named):

	NoTLS - In the unlikely event that you need to use this class to
	perform non-TLS SMTP (you ought to be using Net::SMTP itself for
	that...), this will turn off TLS when supplied with a true value.
	This will most often cause an error related to authentication when
	used on a server that requires TLS

	Hello - hostname used in the EHLO command

	Port - port to connect to the SMTP service (defaults to 25)

	Timeout - Timeout for initial socket connection (defaults to 5,
	passed directly to IO::Socket::INET)

	User - username for SMTP AUTH

	Password - password for SMTP AUTH

 TLS and AUTHentication

    During construction of an Net::SMTP::TLS::ButMaintained instance, the
    full login process will occur. This involves first sending EHLO to the
    server, then initiating a TLS session through STARTTLS. Once this is
    complete, the module will attempt to login using the credentials
    supplied by the constructor, if such credentials have been supplied.

    The AUTH method will depend on the features returned by the server
    after the EHLO command. Based on that, CRAM-MD5 will be used if
    available, followed by LOGIN, followed by PLAIN. Please note that LOGIN
    is the only method of authentication that has been tested. CRAM-MD5 and
    PLAIN login functionality was taken directly from the script mentioned
    in the acknowledgements section, however, I have not tested them
    personally.

 ERROR HANDLING

    This module will croak in the event of an SMTP error. Should you wish
    to handle this gracefully in your application, you may wrap your mail
    transmission in an eval {} block and check $@ afterward.

 ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

    This code was blatantly plagiarized from Michal Ludvig's smtp-client.pl
    script. See http://www.logix.cz/michal/devel/smtp for his excellent
    work.

    Improvements courtesy of Tomek Zielinski