Getting perl to email via sendmail/postfix

Thu Jul 29 16:06:30 UTC 2004

Hi Madison,

I highly recommend Mail::Sendmail instead of shelling out to the system.
Try

  perldoc Mail::Sendmail

for documentation.

Alex

On Thu, 29 Jul 2004, Madison Kelly wrote:

> Hi all,
>
>    I want to use perl to send an email to a specific address when
> certain conditions occur. I know that I could to something along the
> lines of:
>
> sysem '/path/to/sendmail email-Jbz+COfnBihBDgjK7y7TUQ at public.gmane.org < [file with message]
>
>    Is this the best way to do it or is there a more intelligent way to
> talk to sendmail/postfix? Also, as a side question, if I started the
> file with the email in it like this:
>
> Subject: <title>
>
> <body>
>
>    Would that set the subject line in the email? I hope that isn't a
> foolish question; my experience is drawn from using telnet to send
> emails manually. Is there a how-to or resource that I should read that
> you could point me to?
>
> Thanks all!
>
> Madison
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