Sending attachments with Sendmail

TStanley has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Oh gracious and all knowing monks:

Is it possible to use sendmail to send an attachment, or do I have to use one of the
CPAN modules to do this?

Here is what I have coded:

$rptname= "summary".$date.".txt";

print "Date:      ", $date,"\n";
print "Report:  ", $rptname,"\n";
#########################################################
#This will email the report

open (sendmail, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail myname\@company.com");
$rptname;
close(sendmail);
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Any help given will be greatly appreciated.

TStanley

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(chromatic) Re: Sending attachments with Sendmail by chromatic (Archbishop) on Jul 20, 2000 at 04:03 UTC
sendmail is just a Mail Transport agent. It doesn't know anything about attachments, it just moves a bunch of text from one place to another. Have a look at Mime::Lite on the CPAN. It can turn files ('attachments') into something your MTA can handle.	[reply]
(jcwren) Re: Sending attachments with Sendmail by jcwren (Prior) on Jul 20, 2000 at 02:07 UTC
Why not use Net::SMTP or Mail::Mailer? It'll make your code more portable, and you can avoid the hassles of exec'ing external programs. While NT based, there's a whole discussion starting at node Sending mail on NT, that's applicable to what you're trying to do. --Chris e-mail jcwren	[reply]
RE: Sending attachments with Sendmail by Russ (Deacon) on Jul 21, 2000 at 02:46 UTC
Categorized Q&A has a few related questions: How do I send an email with Perl (including an attachment)? How do you properly use sendmail? Reading mail With attachments. Russ Brainbench 'Most Valuable Professional' for Perl	[reply]
Re: Sending attachments with Sendmail by Aighearach (Initiate) on Jul 20, 2000 at 20:34 UTC
If your attachments aren't too large, try Mail::Sendmail. Note that attachments are covered in the Mail::Sendmail FAQ, not in the main documentation. Paris Sinclair \| 4a75737420416e6f74686572 pariss@efn.org \| 205065726c204861636b6572 http://sinclairinternetwork.com	[reply]