Thank you in advance for your help. This site has been a godsend.

Ever had an ISP not return your calls? Well I have stripped down this script to its barest bones trying to get it to work on a box that I can get no information about and to which I am allowed FTP access only. The script runs so permissions are OK, right? But the following code dies at line 20 so it specifically has a problem with some aspect of Sendmail? This script ran on another box just fine.

So, what could I try assuming I will never get an answer from the ISP? Time is running out on this project. 

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use strict;

use CGI qw(:standard);

my $request = new CGI;
my $emailaddress = "me\@mydomain.com";
my $emailaddress2 = "client\@clientdomain.com";
my $htmlpagegood = '<html><head><title>TITLE</TITLE></head><body><P>HI
+</body></html>';
my $htmlpagebad = '<html><head><title>TITLE</TITLE></head><body><P>BYE
+</body></html>';


open(MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t") or die "Content-type: text/html\n\
+n\n$htmlpagebad";
print MAIL "To: $emailaddress\n";
print MAIL "From: $emailaddress2\n";
print MAIL "Subject: subjectmatter\n";
print MAIL "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
print MAIL "bodytext\n\n";
close(MAIL) or die "Content-type: text/html\n\n\n$htmlpagebad";

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n\n$htmlpagegood";
exit;

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