Hi all , use sendmail -f $from $to and check , may be it should work fine ...
Thanks , Chintan On 3/27/10, Harry Putnam <rea...@newsguy.com> wrote: > > "Uri Guttman" <u...@stemsystems.com> writes: > > > > yes. it will be more portable (you have sendmail's path hard wired > > and it varies). they can use other mailers (i have qmail). they can > > use smtp directly to your isp's server (not calling a local > > server). they have more options and are easier to understand. they > > don't use global filehandles (well, you could use a lexical handle > > too. > > > At first, I wasn't concerned about portability, since the script is > only intended for use on my home machine by me, but then with your > prompting I realized; I might have changed MTA 5-6 yrs from now > myself. And could very likely still be using this script. > > I hadn't ever thought about portability in quite that way before. > Always thinking in terms of other machines, remotes, other users etc. > > > > HP> Not sure what you are suggesting to do there. I mean other than > ditch > > HP> the code in favor of a module. Do you mean to put the `die' after > the > > HP> CLOSE? > > > > either is better. your code needs to check the close in case your open > > to sendmail fails. and use a module instead for the whole thing. > > > > HP> Even without that though, wouldn't any errors at CLOSE still print > to > > HP> stderr? > > > > what errors? perl doesn't print system errors, it returns them in $! > > > Aack... what a dope... yeah of course. ... its a system call > > Thanks > > > > -- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org > For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org > http://learn.perl.org/ > > >
