>  On April 23, 2008, "Curtis Leach" <cleach@[...].com> said:  
Subject: Getting MIME::Lite working on Windows
>  I need some help with MIME::Lite on Windows.
>  [snip]
>  If I used the call I use for AIX unix, 
> $msg->send ('smtp', 'localhost', Dbug=>0);
>  I get the following message:
>  Failure sending email:  Failed to connect to mail server: Unknown
error
>  at notify.pl line 478.
> 
>  So I'm assuming that it's because it can't locate the mail server to
use
>  on the Windows platform.
> 
>  Is there any way to ask Windows what mail servers are available?  I'd
>  hate to have to hard code one that isn't available at all the
locations
>  this program would be installed on.  I'd rather add code to ask for
it.
> 
I *think* 'localhost' is causing it to look for a mail server on your
local machine.  Try setting 'localhost' to 'mailhost'.  I'm using 
MIME::Lite on windows and I don't hard code specific locations; I 
use 'mailhost'.  

I can't claim to know exactly why this works, but by specifying 'smtp', 
you are indicating you want MIME::Lite to use the Net::SMTP module to 
actually send the message.  The help for that module indicates you can 
find the actual mail server using the following code:  
#(ie: asking what mail server is available)
  use Net::SMTP;
  $smtp = Net::SMTP-> new('mailhost');
  print $smtp-> domain,"\n";
  $smtp-> quit;
HTH, Paula
 
  
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