I've come before you to seek your wisdom on a basic issue. I recently installed a basic desktop server to host my web site. I downloaded the Perl Package and installed it to my PC. I successfully installed Perl to my server. (Actually my server has a very good and simple GUI that requires I only type in the path to Perl). Now my site has a basic HTML form I parse with Perl and to retrieve visitor info. (Contact Us form) Previously I simply hosted my site with a commercial webhosting company and easily obtained the path to sendmail. (I need the user entered info emailed to my email address)

Now I enter the next phase; installing sendmail.pm and once installed, can I obtain the path to Perl from the PPM command prompt? And when I download the sendmail.pm from CPAN where do I save it to...Simply put, any pointers on installing this to my PC would be great. I normally give more than I ask.... Sincerely, Shawn

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