sendmail issue

[lerameur]

HI again,

I wrote this small script to test my send mail. The script is placed
in the root directory and has the executable permission. It runs
without error, but I never received the email:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" );
print MAIL "From: email address\n";
print MAIL "To: lerameur\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Something here \n\n";
close ( MAIL );


k

 

[Eric Schwartz]

I wrote this small script to test my send mail. The script is placed
in the root directory and has the executable permission. It runs
without error, but I never received the email:

If that's the case, then your problem isn't in your perl script; it's
in your mail server. I recommend finding a newsgroup related to your
mail server, and asking about it there.

-=Eric

 

[John W. Krahn]

I wrote this small script to test my send mail. The script is placed
in the root directory and has the executable permission. It runs
without error,

Because you ignore any errors that may be generated.

but I never received the email:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" );
print MAIL "From: email address\n";
print MAIL "To: lerameur\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Something here \n\n";
close ( MAIL );

open my $MAIL, '|-', '/usr/lib/sendmail', '-t'
or die "Cannot open pipe to sendmail: $!";

print $MAIL <<'MAIL' or warn "Cannot print to sendmail: $!";
From: email address
To: (e-mail address removed)
Subject: Something here

MAIL

close $MAIL
or warn $! ? "Error closing sendmail pipe: $!"
: "Exit status $? from sendmail";



John

 

[lerameur]

I wrote this with the die command

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" ) or die ("Cannot open pipe to
sendmail: $!");
print MAIL "From: email address\n";
print MAIL "To: lerameur\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Something here \n\n";
close ( MAIL ) or die ("Cannot close sendmail: $!");

no errors, no mail receives


k

 

[Tony Curtis]

I wrote this with the die command

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" ) or die ("Cannot open pipe to
sendmail: $!");
print MAIL "From: email address\n";
print MAIL "To: lerameur\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Something here \n\n";
close ( MAIL ) or die ("Cannot close sendmail: $!");

no errors, no mail receives

then, as someone previously pointed out, the problem must be somewhere
outside of perl, e.g. your local sendmail setup.

hth
t

 

[smallpond]

HI again,

I wrote this small script to test my send mail. The script is placed
in the root directory and has the executable permission. It runs
without error, but I never received the email:

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;

open ( MAIL, "| /usr/lib/sendmail -t" );
print MAIL "From: email address\n";
print MAIL "To: lerameur\@yahoo.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Something here \n\n";
close ( MAIL );

k

Because you never gave it the end of the email, which
is defined as a "." on a line by itself.