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draco_iii has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question: ⭐ (mail and news)

How do you properly use sendmail?

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Re: How do you properly use sendmail?⭐
by davorg (Chancellor) on Jun 23, 2000 at 14:07 UTC
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Re: How do you properly use sendmail?
by spartacus9 (Beadle) on Aug 28, 2002 at 04:29 UTC
    I agree that using Mail::Send or Mail::Mailer is a cleaner solution. But if you really want to use sendmail, here's an example: 
    open SENDMAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t -n -oi" or die $!;
  print SENDMAIL "From: user\@domain.com\n";
  print SENDMAIL "To:  $recipient\n";
  print SENDMAIL "Subject:  testing 123\n\n";
  print SENDMAIL $msg_text;
close (SENDMAIL);

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      If you're going to do that then you should really check the return value from the call to open.

      
open (SENDMAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t -n -oi") or die $!;

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Re: How do you properly use sendmail?
by Juerd (Abbot) on Aug 05, 2003 at 06:56 UTC 
    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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