Hi fellow monks,

A friend of mine recently asked if I could write a perl program that would send an email from a file. It seems he would like to periodically email a list of his students from a file he has written ( lecture notes, homework assignments, etc. ). So, this is the 'project' so far: 


#!\usr\bin\perl -wT

use strict;
use Net::SMTP;
use CGI qw ( :standard );

my ( $from, $to, $subject, $message, $address, 
$server, $myAddress );

$from  = param( "from" );
$to = param( "to" );
$subject = param( "subject" );
$message = param( "message" );
$address = param( "address" );
$server = param( "server" );
$myAddress = param( "myAddress" );

my $smtp = new Net::SMTP( "$server", Hello => "$server" )
or die "Ughh! Unable to send email : $!\n";

$smtp->to( "$to );
$smtp->mail( "$myAddress" );
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend( "From: $from\n" );
$smtp->datasend( "To: $to\n" );
$smtp->datasend( "Subject: $subject\n\n\n" );
$smtp->datasend( "$message\n" );
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit();

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If the $message that he wanted to send was stored in a file called "syllabus.txt", how would I include that file name in place of the message text?

Thanks in advance,

-Katie.

In reply to Sending email from a file. by DigitalKitty

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