As written, your mail.txt file is only ever going to have the most recent message in it if you open the file handle for writing: 
open(MAIL, ">/home/brian/mail.txt");
if you want a spool file (list of all messages), you'd need to open the file handle for appending: 
open(MAIL, ">>/home/brian/mail.txt");
While you're at it, you should probably lock the file while you are writing to it, so the next piece of inbound mail doesn't try to screw with your mail.txt file while you are already writing to it.

(this code is ripped from OraPP2ndEd, p 166-7) 

flock MAIL, 2;
seek MAIL, 0, 2; # skip to the end for spooling
while (<STDIN>) {print MAIL $_;}
flock MAIL, 8; 
close MAIL || die($!);
Note that flock can't be tested with die, since it waits until the file is "freed up" for locking. If your system doesn't implement flock, you'll get a fatal runtime error, AFAIK

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

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