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Installing CPAN Perl Modules Revisited

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It has been a while since How to Install a CPAN Perl Module and things have changed a little bit. The qpsmtpd Download page recommends running

# perl -MCPAN -e shell

This will again go through a configuration wizard, but now you have to answer 'no' to get the full run-down:

CPAN is the world-wide archive of perl resources. It consists of about
300 sites that all replicate the same contents around the globe. Many

How to Install a CPAN Perl Module

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Trivial for those who know, but there's a first time for everything.

[EDIT: See Installing CPAN Perl Modules Revisited for a newer take.]

Here's how to install a module from CPAN:

perl -MCPAN -e 'install full::module::name'

The first time you run this, it will answer with

Implementing SMTP Authorization with qpsmtpd running under SuSE 10.0 and Plesk 8.0

Receiving incoming email and making it available to your users via POP3 or IMAP is only the first half of running a Message Transfer Agent (MTA). The other half is to relay outgoing email from your users to the world.

We don't want to run an open relay, of course, so we we need some form of authorization.

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