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

I've come before you to seek your wisdom on a basic issue. I recently installed a basic desktop server to host my web site. I downloaded the Perl Package and installed it to my PC. I successfully installed Perl to my server. (Actually my server has a very good and simple GUI that requires I only type in the path to Perl). Now my site has a basic HTML form I parse with Perl and to retrieve visitor info. (Contact Us form) Previously I simply hosted my site with a commercial webhosting company and easily obtained the path to sendmail. (I need the user entered info emailed to my email address)

Now I enter the next phase; installing sendmail.pm and once installed, can I obtain the path to Perl from the PPM command prompt? And when I download the sendmail.pm from CPAN where do I save it to...Simply put, any pointers on installing this to my PC would be great. I normally give more than I ask.... Sincerely, Shawn

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Re: Installing Mail::Sendmail
by PodMaster (Abbot) on May 28, 2004 at 02:03 UTC
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Re: Installing Mail::Sendmail
by Trag (Monk) on May 28, 2004 at 02:04 UTC
    What do you mean by obtaining the path to Perl from the PPM prompt? To get Mail::Sendmail with PPM, just start up PPM and type "search *". Wait for the results (it might take a long time) and look through them for Mail::Sendmail.
    Type "install Mail-Sendmail" or "install modulenumber" and it installs automatically into the correct folders.
    Since you're on windows you only need to go to CPAN to look up module information, not to download modules. 


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114, 101, 80, 32, 114, 101, 104, 116, 111, 110, 97, 32, 116, 115, 117,
+ 74); local $my = reverse ")meti@\ ,rhc (pam tnirp";eval $my;

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