As far as I can tell, you're not opening the pipe correctly. You seem to have a space between the pipe character and the path. I think it should be:

Personally, I always found mucking around with sendmail with perl to be a real pain in the butt, due to all the various security issues and lockdowns that tend to come up. I tend to just use the good old unix 'mail' program instead.

I realize that it isn't as secure as sendmail, but in my case I'm usually just e-mailing things to myself from scripts that are running as cron jobs. You'd have to watch yourself with CGI but I think with proper taint checking you'd be alright... (anyone comment on this?)

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