The Integration Engineer
When it just has to work.

Recently I needed to send our team an email.  Yeah okay, so I email a lot, but this was different.  I needed to send my team an email from a server that was not anywhere near a mail server, and that was pretty paired down.  I did a bunch of Googling for answers and came up with quite a few that didn’t work.

I hate it when that happens.  So as a form of perl tutorial, I am posting my working script here as an example of sending email from a limited server using perl and the MIME::Lite library.

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Running perl integration tools we have two basic needs for time stamps and date time values.

First, it is useful to note the time that something is happening in a log file so that we don’t have to guess.

Second, it is also useful to append the date to a file name to keep our logs in daily files not just one long never ending file.

Here is a function that I use to do both of these things. (more…)