From Marc.Bernstein@efi.com

Here is what I was trying to send with that interface​:

Critical bug-
build 518

Summary​:
Operator or semicolon missing before %NetConfig at .../lib/Net/Config.pm 70

Description​:
installed libnet with ppm
config.pm looks ok (See "Work Around")
Note error messages from debugger (See "Other Applications")

Also Note​:
  DB<1> p @​INC
/Perl/site/lib/Perl/libC​:/Perl/libC​:/Perl/site/lib.

ls -ltr ../site/lib/Net
total 504
...
-r-xr-xr-a 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 12192 Jul 22 1998 SMTP.pm*
...
-rwxrwxrwa 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 1910 Aug 9 14​:34
Config.pm*

ls -ltr ../site/lib/Mail/Mailer
total 7
-r-xr-xr-a 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 408 Jun 16 1998
sendmail.pm*

-r-xr-xr-a 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 248 Jun 16 1998 test.pm*
-r-xr-xr-a 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 328 Jun 16 1998
rfc822.pm*
-r-xr-xr-a 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 485 Jun 29 1998 mail.pm*
-r-xr-xr-a 1 Administrators EFI-CORP\eng 1197 Jul 3 1998 smtp.pm*

email​: marcbe@​efi.com

name​: Marc Bernstien

Other Applications​:

error messages from debugger (See description)​:

Operator or semicolon missing before %NetConfig at
/Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm
line 70, <IN> chunk 1.
  require Net/Config.pm called at /Perl/site/lib/Net/SMTP.pm line 17
  Net​::SMTP​::BEGIN() called at /Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm line 70
  eval {...} called at /Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm line 70
  require Net/SMTP.pm called at /Perl/site/lib/Mail/Mailer/smtp.pm
line 3
  Mail​::Mailer​::smtp​::BEGIN() called at /Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm
line
70
  eval {...} called at /Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm line 70
  require Mail/Mailer/smtp.pm called at (eval 3) line 3
  eval 'require Mail​::Mailer​::smtp
;' called at /Perl/site/lib/Mail/Mailer.pm line 244
  Mail​::Mailer​::new('Mail​::Mailer') called at
/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Send.pm
line 102
  Mail​::Send​::open('Mail​::Send=HASH(0x9b6ff8)') called at
//skopje/home/ma
rcbe/bin/sendtest line 15
Ambiguous use of % resolved as operator % at /Perl/site/lib/Net/Config.pm
line 7
0, <IN> chunk 1.

Code​:

require Mail​::Send;
#$Mail​::Mailer​::MailerBinary = "smtp";

$msg = new Mail​::Send Subject=>'example subject', To=>'mb@​crl.com',
CC=>'marcbe'
;

$fh = $msg->open;
push(@​lines, "#test line 1");
push(@​lines, "test line 2");

$lines = join("\n", @​lines);
print $fh ("$lines\n");

Workaround​:

NOT A WORKAROUND - more info (See description)

NO WORKAROUND - please help!

config.pm excerpt​:

# Below this line is auto-generated, *ANY* changes will be lost
DATA%NetConfig = (
  test_hosts => '0',
  nntp_hosts => ['news.efi.com'],
  snpp_hosts => ['exchange-a3.efi.com'],
  pop3_hosts => ['exchange-a3.efi.com'],
  ftp_ext_passive => '0',
  smtp_hosts => ['exchange-a3.efi.com'],
  inet_domain => 'efi.com',
  ph_hosts => ['exchange-a3.efi.com'],
  test_exist => '1',
  daytime_hosts => ['exchange-a3.efi.com'],
  ftp_int_passive => '0',
  ftp_firewall => undef,
  time_hosts => ['exchange-a3.efi.com'],
);
1;

OS Platorm​: WinNT Workstation 4.0 x86 + SP4

Please notify of any possible solution.

Thanks,

Marc Bernstein
marcbe@​efi.com

@gbarr - Status changed from 'open' to 'resolved'