Lightning flashed, thunder crashed and Peter Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> whispered:
| Yes, but if you create the above using something like
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| open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail $email")
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| to which you should by the way add
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| or die "sendmail: $!\n";
This probably does not do what you think it does. It is almost always
worthless to check the status of a pipe. The only time the pipe will fail
is if the system fails to fork a new process. This only happens when the
system is in very bad shape.
Many people think this will die if sendmail fails (if it isn't in
/usr/sbin, for example). This is not true though. Only by checking the
status of the close will you be able to determine this.
-spp
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