There must have been thousands of prgrammes written using the 'direct to sendmail' approach. Gee, I must have done it 30 or 40 times myself. If it ain't broke, don't fix it. It is probably the most portable way of sending mail on a *nix machine.

That being said, I am using MIME::Lite in my programmes now, largely becuase my clients are asking for HTML formatted emails, or they want the prog to mail a pdf doc created dynamically or some such. Plain text just does not cut it for some folk.

jdtoronto