Problem with sending mail using perl

[Kimi]

While trying to use this simple unix command to send mail using perl

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $output =`echo Mailbody | mail (e-mail address removed)`;

I am facing a strange issue where "(e-mail address removed)" gets converted to
"(e-mail address removed)" and the mail is sent to it. Could some
one throw pointers to get rid of the issue.

The above unix code works perfectly well when executed separately and
send mail to (e-mail address removed)

Thanks in Advance,
Fahad

 

[Benoit Lefebvre]

While trying to use this simple unix command to send mail using perl

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $output =`echo Mailbody | mail (e-mail address removed)`;

I am facing a strange issue where "(e-mail address removed)" gets converted to
"(e-mail address removed)" and the mail is sent to it. Could some
one throw pointers to get rid of the issue.

The above unix code works perfectly well when executed separately and
send mail to (e-mail address removed)

Thanks in Advance,
Fahad

Put a "\" in front of the "@"

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $output =`echo Mailbody | mail afa...\@VSNL.com`;

 

[Kimi]

Put a "\" in front of the "@"

#!/usr/bin/perl
my $output =`echo Mailbody | mail afa...\@VSNL.com`;

Thanks Benoit, That was helpful. But Is it how mail ids are supposed
to be used in perl in general. Suppose I am assigning the mail id to a
variable and want to use it,

Should it be again like,

#!/usr/bin/perl
$mail_id="afahad\@VSNL.com";
my $output =`echo Mailbody | mail $mail_id`;

Or is there a better way?

Thanks in Advance,
Kimi

 

[Ben Morrow]

Thanks Benoit, That was helpful. But Is it how mail ids are supposed
to be used in perl in general. Suppose I am assigning the mail id to a
variable and want to use it,

@VSNL is a variable. Variables interpolate in "" strings. If you had put

use strict;
use warnings;

at the top of your script, Perl would have told you what was wrong.

Should it be again like,

#!/usr/bin/perl
$mail_id="afahad\@VSNL.com";
my $output =`echo Mailbody | mail $mail_id`;

Or is there a better way?

This is a perfectly good way, yes. Slightly clearer might be

$mail_id = '(e-mail address removed)';

note that I no longer have to use \@ as single quotes don't expand
variables.

Ben

 

[Kimi]

Quoth Kimi <[email protected]>:





@VSNL is a variable. Variables interpolate in "" strings. If you had put

use strict;
use warnings;

at the top of your script, Perl would have told you what was wrong.




This is a perfectly good way, yes. Slightly clearer might be

$mail_id = '(e-mail address removed)';

note that I no longer have to use \@ as single quotes don't expand
variables.

Ben

Thanks Ben.

-Kimi