That did the trick. Thanks! Scot R. inSite
-----Original Message----- From: Wiggins d'Anconia [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Friday, August 01, 2003 7:59 PM To: Scot Robnett Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: Mail::Send question Scot Robnett wrote: > Is there any way to force Mail::Send to accept a "From" name, as opposed to > simply sending and using the hostname by default? I don't see anything in > the docs about setting the "From" field in the headers. > > (of course, I can just open a pipe to sendmail, but I want to see if there's > a way to pull this off first...) > Definitely avoid this if possible, there are numerous mail message modules, one of them is bound to provide what you need. > example: > > #!/usr/bin/perl -w > > require Mail::Send; > > my $mailbody = "blah blah blah"; > my $to = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > my $from = '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; > > my $msg = new Mail::Send; > > # $msg->from($from) # doesn't work and mail > # doesn't get sent if you > # use it > It appears that 'from' isn't one of the proper header methods, you should try using the 'set' or 'add' methods to add the header you want. For instance: $msg->set('From' => $from); > $msg->to($to); > $msg->subject('Mail from SomeBusiness.com'); > my $fh = $msg->open; > print $fh $mailbody; > $fh->close; > > # When this mail comes in, it comes from > # <mywebaccountuserID>@<mywebhostdomain> If this doesn't suffice you might try one of the other mail modules that is slightly more robust. http://danconia.org -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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