Hello. I am getting ready to put the finishing touches on a Perl-based subscription newsletter mailing program.

It sends off a message to a selected address as it steps through an array of email addresses. Nothing fancy.
Here's the part I need help with:

open handleMAIL, "|mail $someAddress";
print handleMAIL "This here is the content.";
print handleMAIL "etc.";
close handleMAIL;

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where $someAddress equals theuser\@herdomain.com

It's going to run on a BSDI BSD OS 3.1 system (running Stronghold/2.2 Apache/1.2.5 C2NetUS/2004) (not as a daemon, just when I flip the switch.)

THE PROBLEM I am faced with is that anything mailed this way shows up as coming from the actual username for the account I have access to (a cryptic string of characters and numbers) instead of something user-friendly like "newsletter@ourdomain.com".

Are there any parameters I can add to the  open handleMAIL, "|mail $someAddress"; statement to cause the FROM address to display the more user-friendly address. Or is there some other way to specify the FROM address.

Any suggestions will be appreciated in a major way.

If I can fix this one issue, it will mean yet another victory for Perl within my somewhat Micros~1-centric workplace.

Thanks.

In reply to Perl-based Newsletter Script Needs Your Help by nickcave25

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