I am rewriting a script for my new job, primarily because the guy that wrote it does not use cgi but rather some sort of home rolled version.
This may not be a strictly perl question but I have looked around on google etc. but to no avail and know nowhere else to turn....
   `postmail -H domain.com -t $Owner_email < $filename`;
   $mailerror = $?;

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Is the code in the existing script that sends out the email. I only have ftp access to the server, but do know that it is a Win 2k server.
I would rather write emails similarly to the way in which I use sendmail, but do not know if this is possible. ie. I would rather not write everything to a file and then email that, and then delete the file, as is the case with the existing script.
Has any one had any experience using postmail.
Any comments or suggestion would be useful, because I know nothing about it

In reply to alternatives to postmail? by Gerard

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