"Host =>" in the Net::SMTP module

Hello,

The following doc :
http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.19/Net/SMTP.pm#CONSTR UCTOR

says that you can call the constructor either like this :



$smtp = Net::SMTP->new(
Host => 'mailhost',
....


or directly :

$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost', ...

(ie, without "Host =>")



But on this doc :
http://theoryx5.uwinnipeg.ca/CPAN/perl/lib/Net/SMTP.html#con structor

only the second option is documented.


On my server, and with the last version of the module, the first option
doesn't work.
Do you know why ?
Has it changed with newer versions of the module ?

Thanks
fab

Re: "Host =>" in the Net::SMTP module

"fab" wrote in message news:46c2f38e$1@nntp.unige.ch...
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> On my server, and with the last version of the module, the first option
> doesn't work.

Precisely which version are you running ?
Latest version on CPAN is 1.21 and, according to the docs, the "first
option" should work fine with that version.

> Do you know why ?

Nope.

> Has it changed with newer versions of the module ?

I tend to expect that "the first option" should work with the most recent
versions of Net::SMTP, but perhaps not with earlier versions.

Can you check which version of Net::SMTP you are running:

perl -MNet::SMTP -e 'print $Net::SMTP::VERSION'

or, if you're on Windows:

perl -MNet::SMTP -e "print $Net::SMTP::VERSION"

Whichever version you're running, the behaviour should be as documented in
'perdoc Net::SMTP'.

Cheers,
Rob