Here is an interesting tidbit for anyone thinking of using the command line
mail tool "postie" on Windows from their cgi script.
I decided to send email through a system call to postie, just because postie
is how I have always sent mail from the command line in Windows :) I
couldn't figure out why I was getting a display error from IIS - it worked
fine in a test script but not in my real script. Turns out postie was
wanting to display a complaint about CGI, and I finally found this tidbit
from the author of the utility:
"To run Postie from a CGI program and get it to process command-line
arguments properly you must first un-set the environment variable
'GATEWAY_INTERFACE' or run the program without inheriting the parent CGI
program's environment"
In other words, use undef(ENV{GATEWAY_INTERFACE}); before executing your
system command calling postie, and then all is well.
Thought I would pass this on so no one else wastes time on the same thing, I
only found one mention of it in my google web search and and none in my deja
news search (or whateve it is called now) so it most not be a very popular
way to go - or else people give up and do it another way.
BTW, I looked at the NET:SMTP included with activeperl and didn't see how I
could make the contents of a text file be the body of my message. If someone
can tell me how that is possible, I would prefer to use that method in the
future. (I'm avoiding installing any more modules than what were included.)
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