I have a perl script and I want to be able to have it automatically
email a post to
rec.music.makers.marketplace
How do I do it. I've been pulling my hair out for months trying to
figure this out.
Please help. I don't lurk here often so if you can please send me an

If you want to be able to send email to a newsgroup, you need a gateway
from email to Usenet. The docs, FAQs, and newsgroups about Usenet should
be able to help you with that problem. Of course, if you merely want to
post to Usenet, you should be able to do that with the Net::NNTP module
which you'll find on CPAN. Hope this helps!

--
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use Net::NNTP;

$nntp = Net::NNTP->new("news.at.your.server");

$nntp->post();

$nntp->datasend("Newsgroups: alt.test\n");
$nntp->datasend("Subject: Hoffi's test\n");
$nntp->datasend("\n");
$nntp->datasend("\n");
$nntp->datasend("Hi!\n");
$nntp->datasend("\n");
$nntp->datasend("This is the Body\n");
$nntp->datasend("seperated from the header by two newlines\n");
$nntp->datasend("\n");
$nntp->datasend("Hoffi\n");
$nntp->dataend();

$nntp->quit;

-- -------------------+   _\\|//_  
+--------------------------------------+
| Dirk Hoffmann G105  |  (` o-o ')  |  eMail:  

| Klosterweg 28       +-ooO-(_)-Ooo-+        or  

| 76131 Karlsruhe     _______________  www:    
www.uni-karlsruhe.de/~uk1s |

I detected a perity error.

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