in reply to How do you properly use sendmail?

I agree that using Mail::Send or Mail::Mailer is a cleaner solution. But if you really want to use sendmail, here's an example: 
open SENDMAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t -n -oi" or die $!;
  print SENDMAIL "From: user\@domain.com\n";
  print SENDMAIL "To:  $recipient\n";
  print SENDMAIL "Subject:  testing 123\n\n";
  print SENDMAIL $msg_text;
close (SENDMAIL);

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Re: Answer: How do you properly use sendmail?
by davorg (Chancellor) on Aug 29, 2002 at 09:33 UTC

    If you're going to do that then you should really check the return value from the call to open.

    
open (SENDMAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t -n -oi") or die $!;

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