> "Stephen P. Potter" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> said:
> |
> | open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail $email")
> |
> | to which you should by the way add
> |
> | 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
Not quite. If sendmail is not executable or misspelled, the die will return
an error message. Try:
open(IN, "|/usr/sbin/sendmial") || die "cannot run sendmail - $!\n";
This returns the error:
cannot run sendmail - no such file or directory
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Smoot Carl-Mitchell
Consultant
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