Anonymous Monk has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Can I add a recipient of the form based on a selected field of the form? In other words there are the usual recipients $recipient = 'somebody@somewhere.com' but if a particular field on the form is selected I would like to add another recipient. GD

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Re: CGI Recipient
by arden (Curate) on Mar 04, 2004 at 18:50 UTC
    In a word, "Yes". The real question is, what module(s) are you using? What code do you already have? We can't help show you how to best do it w/o knowing how you are currently doing what you are doing. . .

    - - arden.

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      Sorry about being so vague. here is a snip of the code: 
      $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail';

# Recipient of form responses
$recipient = 'test@test.edu';

# Print out a content-type for HTTP/1.0 compatibility
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";

# Get the input
read(STDIN, $buffer, $ENV{'CONTENT_LENGTH'});

# Split the name-value pairs
@pairs = split(/&/, $buffer);

foreach $pair (@pairs)
{
    ($name, $value) = split(/=/, $pair);

    # Un-Webify plus signs and %-encoding
    $value =~ tr/+/ /;
    $value =~ s/%([a-fA-F0-9][a-fA-F0-9])/pack("C", hex($1))/eg;

    # Stop people from using subshells to execute commands
    # Not a big deal when using sendmail, but very important
    # when using UCB mail (aka mailx).
    # $value =~ s/~!/ ~!/g; 

    # Uncomment for debugging purposes
    # print "Setting $name to $value<P>";

    $FORM{$name} = $value;
}

# Print title and header info for user response
&user_response;

$date = `date`;

# Now send mail to $recipient formatted in HTML
# Note: MIME, Subject and Content lines must appear EXACTLY as they do
+ below
#    (only one \n after Subject line!)
open (MAIL, "|$mailprog $recipient") || die "Can't open $mailprog!\n";
print MAIL "Reply-to: $FORM{'email'} ($FORM{'name'})\n";
print MAIL "MIME-Version: 1.0\n";
print MAIL "Subject: ES Internal Routing Form> $FORM{'name'}: $FORM{'i
+d'} \n";
print MAIL "Content-Type: text/html; charset=us-ascii\n";
print MAIL "Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit\n";
print MAIL "<html><head>\n";
print MAIL "<title>HR ";
print MAIL "ES Internal Routing Form</title>\n";
print MAIL "</head>\n";
print MAIL "<body bgcolor=\"#FFFFFF\" text=\"#000000\" link=\"#003366\
+" ";
print MAIL "alink=\"#666666\" vlink=\"#6699CC\">\n";
print MAIL "<center><table border=0 width=99%>";
print MAIL "<tr><td align=left>";
print MAIL "<img src=\"HR/graphics/smdbw_logo.gif\" ";
print MAIL "alt=\"logo\"></td>";
print MAIL "<td align=center><font color=\"#003366\" size=+2>";
print MAIL "Office<br>";
print MAIL "ES Internal Routing Form</font></td></tr>";
print MAIL "</table>";
print MAIL "<img src=\"graphics/2lines.gif\" ";
print MAIL "alt=\"2lines\"></center>";
print MAIL "<font color=\"#FF0000\"><b>Processed By: </b>$FORM{'fnba'}
+ $FORM{'estb'} $FORM{'espr'}</font><br>";
print MAIL "<b>Name: </b>$FORM{'name'}<br>";
print MAIL "<b>SS#: </b>$FORM{'ss'}<br>";
print MAIL "<b>ID#: </b>$FORM{'id'}<br>";
print MAIL "<b>Dept: </b>$FORM{'deptnumber'}<br>";
print MAIL "<b>Title: </b>$FORM{'title'}<br>";
print MAIL "<b>US Citizen? </b>$FORM{'ckusyes'} $FORM{'ckusno'}<br>";

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      When the user selects $FROM {'ckusno') I would like for an additional recipient be added to the form. GD
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[d/l]
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[d/l]
        First, you can send to multiple email addresses by putting them as arguments to sendmail. That is, a space separated string. 
        $recipient = "foo@example.com bar@example.com";

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        Second, you aren't formatting the email correctly. There must be a blank line between the header and the body.

        Third, you should include a To: line in the header with a list of the email addresses being sent to (separated by commas). sendmail will not add the header automatically. If you don't, the mail will show "To: undisclosed-recipients;". And probably be filtered out by spam filters. Sendmail will read the list of addresses from the To: header if you use the "-t" command line switch.

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[d/l]
        Just include a test for the selection and if it's true, set $recipient to 'test@test.edu' and 'additional@test.edu' before you call  open (MAIL, "|$mailprog $recipient") || die "Can't open $mailprog!\n";

        - - arden.

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[d/l]
Re: CGI Recipient
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 09, 2004 at 14:13 UTC
    I changed the formatting in the sendmail and as suggested but I am still getting the "undisclosed recipients" Thanks
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      I must be doing something wrong. No matter where I put the code to pull in the values of the 'ckusno' before the openmail and then try to alter the recipients I get errors or the script is not recognized.
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Re: CGI Recipient
by Anonymous Monk on Mar 04, 2004 at 20:34 UTC
    Still can't seem to get this going.
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