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Contributed by draco_iii on Jun 22, 2000 at 22:22 UTC
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Answer: How do you properly use sendmail?
contributed by davorg

My advice would be to download the MailTools bundle from CPAN and use the Mail::Send or Mail::Mailer module.

Answer: How do you properly use sendmail?
contributed by Juerd 

my $mailer = '/usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi';
my $recipient = 'foo@bar.com';
my $message = '...';

open my $mailer, "|$mailer" or die $!;

print $mailer <<"END" or die $!;
From: user\@domain.com
To: $recipient
Subject: Testing 123

$message
END

close $mailer or die $!;

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Remember to make sure all data that goes into the headers (just $recipient in this example) is valid.

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