I am in a weird situation. I am on a closed network so I don't have access to CMAP modules. I need to send email, and I would like it in a non block fashion. I.E. do something.... send email (don't block) do more stuff.... I have plenty examples of sendmail but they all seem to block for a while. I.E. I wrote a quick test program to send a mail, and the program did not exit for almost a minute....just to send one email. 
open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");  
 ## Mail Header 
print MAIL "To: $to\n"; 
print MAIL "From: $from\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n"; 
## Mail Body 
print MAIL "write your mail body text here\n";   
close(MAIL);

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Its almost like the call is blocking until my mail server does a 'send/receive', although I am not sure. Any other examples of how I can simply call the sendmail (or other, maybe mail or mailx) in a non-blocking way such that I can send a few emails from my quick script and not have it take minutes. Again please no CMAP modules I cannot get them. Thanks.

In reply to Send mail w(non blocking) default package by forumuser

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