Mail not sending

lakeTrout has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

Hey Monks,

I have a simple form that sends an email. Everything has been working fine for some time now, but when I added another name to the BCC list, the emails stopped coming. Here is a snippet:

...
%mail = (
   SMTP => 'localhost',
   from => 'webform@xyz.com',
   to   => "ABCD <$emailAddress>",
   bcc  => 'myaddress\@xyz.com',
   subject => "License Form",
   );

    $boundary = "====" . time() . "====";
...
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I changed the above to include another BCC name, like so:

   to   => "XYZ <$emailAddress>",
   bcc  => 'myaddress\@xyz.com, address1\@xyz.com',
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when I do this, the emails are no longer sent. Any ideas what might be causing this? Is this not the correct way to add a name? I have also tried something like this to no avail:

bcc => "BCC list <myaddress\@xyz.com, address1\@XYZ.com>",
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Thanks for the help!

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Re: Mail not sending by jhourcle (Prior) on Mar 04, 2005 at 20:03 UTC
Don't escape the @ in a single quoted string. You should either use: `bcc => 'myaddress@xyz.com'` or `bcc => "myaddress\@xyz.com"` For debugging things like this, I'd sugest having the program write out the mail being generated to a file, rather than pushing it to sendmail, and taking a look at it. If you want everything in the 'To' line, use the format: `to => "ABCD <$emailaddress>, <myaddress\@xyz.com>"` I thought e-mail addresses format was explained in RFC822/RFC2822, or RFC821/RFC2821, but I'm not seeing it. Update: the address specs were in RFC822 and RFC2822	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re: Mail not sending by trammell (Priest) on Mar 04, 2005 at 19:14 UTC
I'm curious as to why you're escaping the "@" in the `bcc` entries, but not the `From:` entry. Does the email address need a literal "\"? Is your mailer interpreting the addresses somehow?	[reply]
Re: Mail not sending by RazorbladeBidet (Friar) on Mar 04, 2005 at 19:03 UTC
What program are you sending the mail with? -------------- It's sad that a family can be torn apart by such a such a simple thing as a pack of wild dogs	[reply]
Re^2: Mail not sending by lakeTrout (Scribe) on Mar 04, 2005 at 19:42 UTC
I am talking directly to sendmail `$SENDMAIL_CMD = '\|/usr/lib/sendmail -t -oi';` [download] here is my sendmail sub: `sub sendmail{ my(%mail)= @_; open(MF, $SENDMAIL_CMD) \|\| print "Sendmail Error! ($!)\n";; print MF<<__MAIL_EOF__; From: $mail{from} To: $mail{to} Bcc: $mail{bcc} Subject: $mail{subject} $mail{body} __MAIL_EOF__ }` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Mail not sending by hsinclai (Deacon) on Mar 04, 2005 at 19:48 UTC
Hi! Try escaping the comma separating your Bcc: addresses -- it may be interfering with the construction of the `%mail` hash.. Will it work using `bcc => 'myaddress@xyz.com\, address1@xyz.com'` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^3: Mail not sending by trammell (Priest) on Mar 04, 2005 at 19:56 UTC
I'd guess you're being bitten by an inadvertent newline in your inputs. Have you considered using a module? I've had great luck with MIME::Lite over the years.	[reply]
Re: Mail not sending by lakeTrout (Scribe) on Mar 04, 2005 at 20:43 UTC
Thank you hsinclai and jhourcle. Both of those solutions worked! Thank you all for your help!	[reply]


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