IP and mail header

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

this is a script i have that sends an email to a list of people. what i need to know is the easiest and best way to grep the users IP address and insert it into the headers of the outgoing email. thanks for any help.


#!/usr/local/bin/perl
use CGI;
$foo = new CGI;
$recips = $foo->param('recipient');
$realname = $foo->param('realname');
$realemail = $foo->param('realemail');
$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';

@recipients = split("\, ", $recips);

if(defined ($val = $foo->cookie(-name => "sent-mail"))) {
print $foo->header();
print "
<body bgcolor=\"#FFCC00\">
<p align=\"center\"><big><big><strong><font face=\"Arial\">Sorry $real
+name, emails can only be sent once.</font></strong></big></big></p>
</body>";
} else {
foreach $person (@recipients) {
($pname, $pemail) = split("\<", $person);
$pemail =~ s/\>.*//;
$pname =~ s/\s+//;
open(MAIL,"|$mailprog -t");

print MAIL "To: $pemail\n";
print MAIL "From: $realemail ($realname)\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $pname, interesting site\n\n";

print MAIL "
$pname

message.......

$realname";

close (MAIL);
}

open(FILE, ">> addresses.txt");
@addresses = <FILE>;
foreach $person (@recipients) {
($pname, $pemail) = split("\<", $person);
$pemail =~ s/\>//;
if($pemail !=~ /\s+\,\s+/) {
print FILE "$pemail\n";
}}
close(FILE);

print $foo->header();
$cookie = $foo->cookie('-name' => "sent-mail", '-value' => "sent");
print "
<body bgcolor=\"#FFCC00\">
<script language=javascript>
alert(\"Thank you\");
</script>
</body>";
}
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Re: IP and mail header by kschwab (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2001 at 21:14 UTC
Sounds like you want get the ip address of the browser that is invoking the cgi script ? This doesn't really have much to do with perl, but I believe that most web servers put the remote browser's hostname and ip address in the REMOTE_HOST and REMOTE_ADDR environment variables: `my $rhost = $ENV{"REMOTE_HOST"} \|\| "unknown"; my $raddr = $ENV{"REMOTE_ADDR"} \|\| "unknown"; # use mailer-friendly "x headers" print MAIL "X-REMOTE_HOST: $rhost\n"; print MAIL "X-REMOTE_ADDR: $raddr\n";` [download]	[reply] [d/l]

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Re: IP and mail header
by kschwab (Vicar) on Mar 24, 2001 at 21:14 UTC

This doesn't really have much to do with perl, but I believe that most web servers put the remote browser's hostname and ip address in the REMOTE_HOST and REMOTE_ADDR environment variables:

my $rhost = $ENV{"REMOTE_HOST"} || "unknown";
my $raddr = $ENV{"REMOTE_ADDR"} || "unknown";
# use mailer-friendly "x headers"
print MAIL "X-REMOTE_HOST: $rhost\n";
print MAIL "X-REMOTE_ADDR: $raddr\n";
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