Programming: Perl And sendmail

A number of popular programming tools and applications are available to you within your FTP/Web site, provided you've contacted us and requested Telnet access. Below are tips on how to access and use some of the more popular.

Using Sendmail

Sendmail is available to you in your /usr/sbin/ directory. The most common way to use it to pipe your message to sendmail in a perl script, e.g.,

open (MESSAGE_TO, "·/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t");        
print MESSAGE_TO "From: $email" ;
print MESSAGE_TO "To: $recp" ;
print MESSAGE_TO "Errors-To: webmaster@mydomain.com";
print MESSAGE_TO "" ;
print MESSAGE_TO "$message_body" ;
close (MESSAGE_TO) ;

Note: The Errors-To header should always be used when generating mail that may be undeliverable. Should the message return to our servers as undeliverable, the Errors-To field will be used to deliver error messages regarding the delivery failure.

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