Hi. This surprised me, but my code below actually works to send an email! This site is great for the necessary programming help. Now I have a few questions on how can I make it better.

First, when the email is received, the "FROM" field is blank. How and where do I specify the person it is coming from?

Second, how do I specify the subject? Now, the first part of the body is in the subject line.

Last -- this one is not as important but I'm just curious -- is there a way to specify the date and time?

I am using WindowsXP Pro. I tried using both sendmail and the Mail module but to no success. Below is my code: 

use strict;
use Net::SMTP;


my $recipient1 = 'john@hotmail.com';
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mailhost.com',
                    
                    );

$smtp->mail ($ENV{USER});
$smtp->recipient($recipient1);
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("This is a test");
$smtp->datasend();
$smtp->quit;

[download]

In reply to Created script to send email but ending up with blank "FROM" field? by edger1

Title:
Use:  <p> text here (a paragraph) </p>
and:  <code> code here </code>
to format your post, it's "PerlMonks-approved HTML":


  • Posts are HTML formatted. Put <p> </p> tags around your paragraphs. Put <code> </code> tags around your code and data!
  • Titles consisting of a single word are discouraged, and in most cases are disallowed outright.
  • Read Where should I post X? if you're not absolutely sure you're posting in the right place.
  • Please read these before you post! —
  • Posts may use any of the Perl Monks Approved HTML tags:
    a, abbr, b, big, blockquote, br, caption, center, col, colgroup, dd, del, details, div, dl, dt, em, font, h1, h2, h3, h4, h5, h6, hr, i, ins, li, ol, p, pre, readmore, small, span, spoiler, strike, strong, sub, summary, sup, table, tbody, td, tfoot, th, thead, tr, tt, u, ul, wbr
  • You may need to use entities for some characters, as follows. (Exception: Within code tags, you can put the characters literally.)
            For:     Use:
    & &amp;
    < &lt;
    > &gt;
    [ &#91;
    ] &#93;
  • Link using PerlMonks shortcuts! What shortcuts can I use for linking?
  • See Writeup Formatting Tips and other pages linked from there for more info.