Hello Everyone,
I suspect I'm the kind of irritating poster you all cringe at when you see the post. You see, I don’t know perl, however I use a complicated script and I tweak it as much as I can with what little I know. Well, I was informed on a perl newsgroup that the sendmail is "so 90’s" and It isn’t secure. And I should use Mail::sendmail in it’s stead.

I looked at the perl modules installed available to me and I have Mail::Mailer::sendmail and I hope it will do the trick.

However, when I use the following script, I get an error "Undefined subroutine &main::sendmail called at mail.pl line 12." And I fear that maybe it won’t do the trick. 

#!/usr/bin/perl

use CGI;
use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);
use Mail::Mailer::sendmail;

  %mail = ( To      => 'me@myisp.com',
            From    => 'info@mywebsite.com',
            Message => "This is a very short message"
           );

  sendmail(%mail) or die $Mail::Mailer::sendmail::error;

  print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Mailer::sendmail::log;

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My head hurts from googling the last 4 days, trying to figure out how to use Mail::Mailer::sendmail and not having any luck, until now?

Thank you for your advice, Abby

Edited by Chady -- added code tags.

In reply to Mail::Mailer::sendmail woes by Abby

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