I put a subroutine to give me back a message on my CGI web form if sendmail is down to eliminate getting a 500 server error message. What syntax would I use to call the subroutine?? 
sub mal
{
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head><title>Sendmail problem</title></head>\n";
print "<body bgcolor=\"white\">\n";
print "<center><strong><h2><font color=red>Mail is down</font></h2
></strong></center>\n";
print "</body></html>\n";
exit;
}

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Now here is where I am trying to put it in my open pipe area and here are some of my many attempts that are not working.
I still get the 500 web server error: 
open (MAIL,"|$sendmail") || warn "&mal";

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open (MAIL,"|$sendmail") || die &mal;

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open (MAIL,"|$sendmail") || &mal;

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In reply to Web page output for sendmail problem by Anonymous Monk

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