in reply to sendmail with perl

In fact, I don't see a perl question at all. I think the answer somehow relates to the fact that the To: header is really part of the body of the message and the smtp "rcpt to:" command describes the actual recipients.

If you want to do this in a perl way, look at Net::SMTP and MIME::Lite. And if you want to really really avoid work, see Net::SMTP::OneLiner.

-Paul

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Re^2: sendmail with perl
by mwhiting (Beadle) on May 23, 2007 at 19:19 UTC
    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?

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      Yes, that works acceptably well. It's not wrong... It's not really perl though. And I definitely don't know how to send to more than one recipient that way. When I'm doing bigger jobs, I always use Net::SMTP. A lot of people like MIME::Lite too, so I'd check there. I believe it forks a sendmail in some modes.

      -Paul

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        Are Net::SMTP & MIME::Lite installed by default with Perl 5?

        (Where would I look to find that out ... that's a question I often have before using a module. I need to not be something that has to be installed by the ISP later on - since they don't often like to do that).

        Michael

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