I've always found the easiest way to do this is to e-mail.
Open sendmail as a file and put all the info you need into it. Once you close the e-mail "file" sendmail will ship it off. Depending on your server and volume of e-mail, you should get it nearly instantly.
I have a perl script which does exactly this any time anyone views a home listing on my realty site. It e-mails me the page they looked at, their e-mail address, etc. and I never even have to connect to my server.

Very handy.

open(SM,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print SM <<OUT;
To: me\@me.net
From: server\@yourserver.com
Subject: results

$msg_text

OUT
close(SM);
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cidaris

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