Well, not being familiar with qmail, my guess is that it doesn't actually take the data and mail it to $email. I would start by seeing what happens when you print data out to qmail. like while (<STDIN>) { print "taco\n";} If it magically gives you 'taco' (highly unlikely), you probably just need to email the results to whereever you want. Generic Mail Form Processor will show you how to do that.