use something like this.... 
#!/usr/bin/perl

require "/web/cgi-bin/cgi-lib.pl";
&ReadParse;

### get values from html form input called email & fax
$fax      = $in{'fax'};
$email      = $in{'email'};
$err[1] = "Please fill in all the required fields";

$domain = "your.domain.com";
########## did they enter something?
&error($err[1]) if !( $fax ||  $email );
&mail 
exit;
sub error {
    print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
    print "<HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY>\n";
    print "<H3>$_[0]</H3><BR>\n";
    print "</BODY></HTML>\n";
    exit 0;
}
########## use sendmail
sub mail {
    open (MAIL,"|/usr/lib/sendmail Me\@$domain");
    print MAIL "From: script@domain.com\n";
    print MAIL "To: Me\@$domain\n\n";
    print MAIL "Users Fax:$fax\n";
    print MAIL "Users Email:$email\n";
    close MAIL;
    return;
}

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