Okay, monks, this code won't work:

Obviously, you don't have relatives who call you on a daily basis with questions like: "My computer ain't working, how to fix it?", or you would know that you don't give much info. I'd be interested in what exactly doesn't work (read: what error do you get?)

Try the following and post the errors:

open(MAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t") || die "Can't open sendmail: $
+!";
print MAIL "To: myemail\@myemail.com\n";
print MAIL "From: serveremail\@theserver.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Blah\n\n";
print MAIL "Put main message in here.\n"
close (MAIL);
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Update: I should clarify the code a bit for fast readers ;) I added the || die "Can't open sendmail: $!"; part, to make sure the problem is not there. Also I added two backslashes in front of the @-signs to escape these. Otherwise, Perl will thing "myemail.com" and "theserver.com" are arrays. HTH

open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t") or die $!; # check  to see i
+f a success
print MAIL 'To: myemail@myemail.com\n';              # double quotes i
+nterpolate @myemail as a variable
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You could always install Mail::Sendmail. In case you are wondering how to do that without root privelages - it's a FAQ

Cheers - L~R

Thank you for your quick response. I added your suggestions, but the results are still the same. it acts like it sent it and nothing is sent. here is the updated, full, code.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use CGI ":all";
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser set_message);

  BEGIN {
    sub handle_errors {
        my $msg = shift;
        print "<h1>ERROR</h1><br>";
        print "$msg"
    }
    set_message(\&handle_errors);
  }

open(MAIL,'|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t') or die $!;
print MAIL 'To: myemail\@myemail.com\n';
print MAIL 'From: serveremail\@theserver.com\n';
print MAIL 'Subject: Blah\n\n';
print MAIL 'Put main message in here.\n';
close (MAIL);

print header, "hi";
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toonski,
You combined b10m and my suggestions. Either use single quotes which won't interpolate or escape the ampersands in the double quotes.

it acts like it sent it and nothing is sent

What do you mean? Are you saying there is no error messages but you do not receive the email? If that is the case, have you tried doing checking the mailq? Have you tried running the same process from the command line? You are not giving enough feedback to indicate what the problem is.

Cheers - L~R