So you are saying it should look like this?

Yes, what you showed is correct. Note it's generally better to use heredocs instead of a multiline qq, so e.g.

my $email_message = <<"ENDMAIL";
To: $recipient
Subject: Adoption Application
...
ENDMAIL

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My host is telling me i'm not allowed to look at the email logs, I've asked them what I can access and i'm waiting to hear.

You could write out your data to a logfile on your account, in case something with the emails doesn't work out.

I know the code is horrible but i'm learning.

If this were a legacy script, ok, but if this a new script, then you'd be much better off learning something more modern. I've been doing a lot with Mojolicious recently, and I think it's pretty great. See Mojolicious::Guides::Tutorial for getting started. Otherwise, at the very least what this script needs is to Use strict and warnings! See also UP-TO-DATE Comparison of CGI Alternatives.

And with that many variables, it'd be much better to store them in a data structure like a hash. Then you could do things like loop over it so you don't have to repeat the regex a bunch of times. (Also, note you don't seem to be doing anything with the yardtypeother field.)

Also, you should check if the host has Email::Sender::Simple installed, that should be much better and easier to use than shelling out to sendmail.

In reply to Re^3: sendmail working for me but not another by haukex
in thread sendmail working for me but not another by kickingchicken

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