OK I use the Sendmail module quite a lot and normally have no issues with it, but this time I'm trying to read in the "To" entries from an external file and use them from a variable but it's giving me issues. Sendmail normally expects to see something like this:

%newmsg = (
    From => 'whoever@wherever.net',
    To => 'Joe User <joe.user@wherever.net>',
    Subject => $subject,
    Message => "A message to all my fans... Love, Stitch Jones"
    );

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If I put the people for the "To" header into the external file in this format:

Joe User <joe.user@wherever.net>

and read that into a variable $recipients, and then try to mail, Sendmail fails using this syntax:

To => $recipients,

So I've done something like this (to get the single quotes Sendmail apparently needs):

To => "\'.$recipients.\'",

The above WILL send the mail but when the mail arrives the "To:" header in the mail is empty so you can't see (or "reply to all") to the email and get the original receivers as well as the person/email it was sent "From". Seems like it should not work since it is syntactically odd (seems this would be more correct):

To => "\'" . $recipients . "\'",

Running the above nets a "connection failed" to the SMTP server.

Any help here, fellow Monks on getting Sendmail to accept the "To" item from a variable (I've stuck the single apostrophes into the string too with bad results) and still show the To: header properly when the email arrives?

In reply to Sendmail module question by AlphalphaMale

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