Sending a MIME::Entity email on OS X

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

Hi all,

I'm developing an application on OS X (10.5.7) using Apache (2.2.11), mod_perl (2.0.2) and Mason. I'm using MIME::Entity to create an email, like this (error checking omitted for clarity):

use MIME::Entity;
my $entity = MIME::Entity->build ( To      => $to,
                                      From    => $from,
                                      Cc      => $cc,
                                      Subject => $subject,
                                      Data    => "$body\n"
                                    );

open (MAIL, "|/usr/bin/mail");
$entity->print(\*MAIL);
close(MAIL);
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The problem is that nothing seems to happen. I've used similar code on a Solaris system, where I invoked mail with the "-t" option. On OS X the "-t" option gives me a "broken pipe" error message on the close command. Without that option, no error messages appear, but no mail appears to be sent.

I have looked at the manpage for the OS X mail command and didn't find any help, but it's possible I missed something.

Has anyone been down this road before? Can you point me in the right direction?

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Re: Sending a MIME::Entity email on OS X by Anonymous Monk on May 20, 2009 at 03:38 UTC
http://search.cpan.org/src/DONEILL/MIME-tools-5.427/README-OR-DIE `Debugging All toolkit warnings may be turned off with config 'QUIET'. See MIME::ToolUtils for details.` [download] MIME::Tools `MIME::Tools->debugging(1);` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^2: Sending a MIME::Entity email on OS X by mboudreau (Acolyte) on May 20, 2009 at 15:28 UTC
Adding `MIME::Tools->debugging(1); MIME::Tools->quiet(0);` [download] didn't have any effect: no error messages about the Mime tools. However, changing `open(MAIL, "\|/usr/bin/mail");` [download] to `open(MAIL, "\|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t")` [download] results in the message being sent.	[reply] [d/l] [select]