Todd W. wrote:
"Camilo Gonzalez" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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Definitely avoid this if possible, there are numerous mail message
modules, one of them is bound to provide what you need.
Why is sendmail held in such low regard by this group?
Most on this list will agree sendmail is one of the Internet's first "killer
apps". But because interfacing directly with the sendmail binary can be
confusing and bug prone there are modules on the CPAN that use sendmail as
the transport mechanism. These modules abstract sendmail's intricacies from
the user, providing a simple API to send mail. Therefore, modules are the
preferred way to send mail from a perl program.
Todd W.
I sometimes wonder if all this shielding of intricacies is necessarly a
good thing. Shouldn't I know how to use sendmail? I guess I'm a DIY kind
of guy and I want to know how sendmail works. Fine, if a module makes it
all easier, I'll certainly use it. But I want to know how the
abstraction occurs. What happens if the module I'm using in lieu of
sendmail is buggy and I have no idea why or how to circumvent the
problem? Do I have control issues?
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