Hello, I am trying to use this simple sendmail script to send myself an e-mail. The script prints out "Success!" but the e-mail never arrives. Any ideas as to what could be wrong? 

#!/usr/bin/perl
print "Content-type:text/html\n\n";

$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';
open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t") or die "cannot open sendmail";
print MAIL "To: my\@email.address\n";
print MAIL "From: senders\@email.address\n";
print MAIL "Subject: this is the subject line\n\n";
print MAIL "these are the contents of the e-mail\n";
close(MAIL);

print "Success!";

exit 1;

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I have double-checked for typos in my e-mail address, and I am certain that the path to sendmail is correct.

In reply to sendmail script by keiusui

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