Hmmm, I just tried using that sendmail program with Mail::Mailer and finally got it to work. Please note that getting it to work isn't easy and requires you to edit Mail::Mailer's source to get it to work properly on windows. Also, please be certain that your perl is 5.6.1 or later.

First, here's my test script:

#!/usr/bin/perl -l

BEGIN { $ENV{'PERL_MAILERS'} = 'sendmail:c:\sendmail.exe'; }

use Mail::Mailer "sendmail";

my $m = Mail::Mailer->new();

$m->open({qw(
                From    someone@somewhere.com 
                To      someone@someotherplace.com
                Subject hey
           )}
        );

print $m "Hi";

$m->close;

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Please make certain you're putting '.exe' at the end of the executable or it'll complain that it can't find the executable. Now we have to work around a problem with Mail::Mailer. Unfortunately, it uses open($self,"|-") which, if you've read perldoc perlfork, isn't implemented on windows yet. However, there's a workaround. You'll need to add the following code to Mail::Mailer's source (preferably towards the end):

sub pipe_to_fork {
    my $parent = shift;
    pipe my $child, $parent or die;
    my $pid = fork();
    die "fork() failed: $!" unless defined $pid;
    if ($pid) {
        close $child;
    }
    else {
        close $parent;
        open(STDIN, "<&=" . fileno($child)) or die;
    }
    $pid;
}

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You will then need to go to line 269 and change open($self,"|-") to pipe_to_fork($self).

Once you've done that, it should work. If it doesn't please reply below.

In reply to Re: sendmail on windows- unique location by antirice
in thread sendmail on windows- unique location by Anonymous Monk

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