Thanks grinder for the practical suggestions, I will look into those other modules. I'm still curious *why* sendmail is so frowned upon, but for now I'll take the advice I'm seeing here as ample.

Update: I checked on mail::sendmail and my primary web hosts have it installed. The documentation on CPAN seems simple enough, so I'm off and running with a new way (hopefully more secure way) to send mail. Thanks again.

UPDATE 2: Actually have Mail::Sendmail now working on a live site and it's way cool. Less typing and the From address is better.