I'm trying to send an email from a perl script but I'm having a bad time connecting to my SMTP server. I'm using MailCatcher- https://github.com/sj26/mailcatcher/ - running with it's default settings (localhost:1025).
MailCatcher is running and I can send mail to it with other services. Any clues as to what could be wrong? (Also tried sending a mail with Net::SMTP but that also failed to connect)
print "Testing Mail::Sendmail version $Mail::Sendmail::VERSION\n";
my %mail = (
To => 'temp@test.com',
From => 'test@test.com',
Subject => 'Test message'
);
$mail{server} = 'localhost:1025';
$mail{'mESSaGE : '} = "The message key looks terrible, but works.";
print Dumper(%mail);
if (sendmail %mail) { print "Mail sent OK.\n" }
else { print "Error sending mail: $Mail::Sendmail::error \n" }
Output
Testing Mail::Sendmail version 0.79
Default server: localhost
Default sender:
$VAR1 = 'Subject';
$VAR2 = 'Test message';
$VAR3 = 'server';
$VAR4 = 'localhost:1025';
$VAR5 = 'To';
$VAR6 = 'temp@test.com';
$VAR7 = 'message : ';
$VAR8 = 'The message key looks terrible, but works.';
$VAR9 = 'From';
$VAR10 = 'test@test.com';
Error sending mail: connect to localhost failed (Connection refused)
connect to localhost failed
connect to localhost failed (Connection refused)
connect to localhost failed
connect to localhost failed (Connection refused) no (more) retries!
EDIT:
Turned out mailcatcher was running on another port and wasn't giving an error when I was trying to start it up on 25.