use Mail::Sendmail; my %mail; %mail = ( To => 'pieter.allaer@eu.valor.com', From => 'pieter.allaer@eu.valor.com', #Bcc => 'Someone , Someone else her@there.com', # only addresses are extracted from Bcc, real names disregarded #Cc => 'pieter.allaer@eu.valor.com', # Cc will appear in the header. (Bcc will not) Subject => "The neutral BOM file for $curJob{jobName} is created", 'X-Mailer' => "Mail::Sendmail version $Mail::Sendmail::VERSION", ); $mail{Smtp} = 'euvalor.eu.valor.com'; $mail{'X-custom'} = 'My custom additionnal header'; $mail{'mESSaGE : '} = "Please process the Neutral BOM file which can be found at $bommgr_scrub_save\n This is an automatic generated email"; # cheat on the date: $mail{Date} = Mail::Sendmail::time_to_date( time() - 86400 ); sendmail %mail; #if (sendmail %mail) { print "Mail sent OK.\n" } #else { print "Error sending mail: $Mail::Sendmail::error \n" } #print "\n\$Mail::Sendmail::log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log;