1) How do you know for sure that the program is getting executed?

2) What user is the script running as? Does it have the correct permissions?

3) With that in mind, you should be checking the return of open (always check the returns of system calls!): 

open (MAIL, ">/home/brian/mail.txt")
    or die "Can't open: $!";
print MAIL "\n";
while (<STDIN>) {print MAIL $_}
close MAIL
    or die "Can't close: $!"

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Is the file ever created, even? Is anything ever written to it?

In reply to Re: Sendmail .forward + perl by btrott
in thread Sendmail .forward + perl by IndyZ

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