I know - email has been discussed like 45,000 times on here. But I have a little issue I can't seem to resolve. I am trying to send an email like so:
$dirname = ARGV[0];
$fname = ARGV[1];
...
$status = system("mail -s \"test subject\" < $dirname$fname");

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Now, if I run this from a command line it works fine. However, if this is in a separate program called from a CGI script, it sends an empty email and reports back that the email will have a null body.

I would like to avoid using any modules here, and the problem with piping it back through is that I would need to read the file I'm trying to use as the message body. Not a huge deal, but if I can accomplish this as one line I'd like to.

Does anyone have any ideas as to why this won't run under this circumstance? I have even tried hardcoding the filename in, same thing. I'm stumped!

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