OK, I was a bit brief on the code that I actually use. Here's the perl code: 
$mailProg = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
open (MAIL, "|$mailProg");
print MAIL "Date: $mailheader_date -0500\n";
print MAIL "To: $recipient\n";
print MAIL "From: $adminEmail\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Borrow Request\n";
print MAIL "***********************************\n";
(more print statements with the body of the msg in here)
close (MAIL);

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So yes, it could be that I'm doing it the wrong way .... although this has worked for a long time on a lot of different servers. :)

What call to the sendmail program would work then, if it should have something else for the envelope besides what's in the body?

In reply to Re^2: sendmail with perl by mwhiting
in thread sendmail with perl by mwhiting

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