Fellow Monasterians,

I've had good success using Mail::Sendmail when just sending simple text e-mails. I want to expand my working knowledge to sending attachments. I found some helpful code at Mail::Sendmail FAQs, but frankly, I don't understand everything I'm seeing there.

My confusion starts at:

$file = $^X;

open (F, $file) or die "Cannot read $file: $!";
binmode F; undef $/;
$mail{body} = encode_base64(<F>);
close F;

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I don't get the $^X even after perusing perlvar. Or what happens in the open (F, $file).. line and the 3 lines that follow.

Can someone walk me through exactly what happens here, so I can figure out where and how to get the file attached. Do I upload it to the server first? How does this code know what file to attach? Thanks in advance.


—Brad
"The important work of moving the world forward does not wait to be done by perfect men." George Eliot

In reply to Wisdom sought re:mail:sendmail attachments by bradcathey

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