You might do better to use Net::SMTP, which avoids the whole issue of forking to a (possibly insecure) sendmail.

I don't know how many changes there would be, being a Perl novice. Also, I use the "NMS" FormMail.pl, which runs SENDMAIL just fine, but they may have used their own modules. Sendmail is used twice in the Perl script, and it all worked perfectly on a Unix box, but there have been many changes since moving the website (Linux box). Looking at the code, all the sendmail does it is heap of PRINT comands. Would SMTP be the same, so all I would have to change is the "open" function ?? I guess I'd better find out if the SMTP module runs on the website firts though. :)

If you are married to the open, what is the error message?

That's the trouble, even with the shebang line as

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT

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there is no error message, the script just stops. I have a PRINT just before the 'open' and a PRINT right after, and it just sits there. Here is diehtml

sub diehtml {
    print start_html('Error processing order'), @_, end_html(), "\n";
    exit 1;
}

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Thanks,

Peter

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