i have a form that generates an email that gets sent to a specified person in our organization. the form is to collect names and contact information from parents to keep in touch with their college-age kids.

this is the code that generates the mail: 

open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t") or die "Can't open sendmail: 
+$!\n";
    print MAIL "From: no-reply <webmaster\@domain.org\n";
    print MAIL "Reply-To: $efrom\n";
    print MAIL "To: recipient\@mailserver.com\n";
    print MAIL "Subject: $esubject\n\n";
    print MAIL $emessage;
    close(MAIL)     or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";

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the value of $emessage contains the value of $efrom and displays correctly as whatever was entered into the email field, but the actual header content for the "Reply-To" field has the domain of our webserver tacked to the end, so it'll look like "parent@hotmail.com.hivelocity.net" whereas $efrom = "parent@hotmail.com". this also happens if i use $efrom in the "From:" field of the email header.

any ideas how i can get the reply-to to get sent correctly? what am i doing wrong?? i've used a similar script for many of my other forms, without any difficulty...

TIA, janaki

In reply to domain getting tacked onto email address?? by Anonymous Monk

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