sendmail

[kd]

Hi all,

I am working on a program which uses sendmail.I found that the sendmail
directory was located at /usr/sbin/sendmail. I try to execute the
following piece of code. But the program shows any errors nor executing
it properly.Could you please let me know what the problem could
be.Thanks in advance.

- Karthik
===================================================
#!/usr/bin/perl/
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
system('clear');

open(SENDMAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -odq")or die "Can't fork for
sendmail: $!\n";
print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
From: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
To: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
Subject: A relevant subject line
Hey Wats up !!
EOF
close(SENDMAIL) or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";
===================================================

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

I am working on a program which uses sendmail.I found that the
sendmail directory was located at /usr/sbin/sendmail.

Is that the directory, or the full path to the binary?

I try to execute the following piece of code. But the program shows
any errors nor executing it properly.

Well, what are the errors it shows?

#!/usr/bin/perl/

This is incorrect.

#!/usr/bin/perl

....

print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
From: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
To: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
Subject: A relevant subject line
Hey Wats up !!
EOF
close(SENDMAIL) or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";

Don't you need to signal the end of the message to sendmail by sending a
..CRLF to sendmail?

Sinan

 

[Shane]

Hi all,

I am working on a program which uses sendmail.I found that the sendmail
directory was located at /usr/sbin/sendmail. I try to execute the
following piece of code. But the program shows any errors nor executing it
properly.Could you please let me know what the problem could be.Thanks in
advance.

- Karthik
=================================================== #!/usr/bin/perl/
use strict;
use diagnostics;
use warnings;
system('clear');

open(SENDMAIL,"|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t -odq")or die "Can't fork for
sendmail: $!\n";
print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
From: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
To: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
Subject: A relevant subject line

you need a blank line between your headers ^^ above and your body below

 

[Shane]

Oh and.. should there be a pipe in your path?

"|/usr/sbin/sendmail"
^^^

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

Oh and.. should there be a pipe in your path?

"|/usr/sbin/sendmail"
^^^

Yes.

perldoc -f open

perldoc -q send

Sinan

 

[Tad McClellan]

Oh and.. should there be a pipe in your path?

"|/usr/sbin/sendmail"
^^^

Of course there should be.

 

[Anno Siegel]

[...]

print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
From: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
To: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
Subject: A relevant subject line
Hey Wats up !!
EOF
close(SENDMAIL) or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";

Don't you need to signal the end of the message to sendmail by sending a
.CRLF to sendmail?

No, closing its input is enough. You need dot-on-a-line to make sendmail
quit *before* it reaches eof.

Anno

 

[A. Sinan Unur]

(e-mail address removed)-berlin.de (Anno Siegel) wrote in

[...]

print SENDMAIL <<"EOF";
From: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
To: Karthik <karthik\@kmail.com>
Subject: A relevant subject line
Hey Wats up !!
EOF
close(SENDMAIL) or warn "sendmail didn't close nicely";

Don't you need to signal the end of the message to sendmail by
sending a .CRLF to sendmail?

No, closing its input is enough. You need dot-on-a-line to make
sendmail quit *before* it reaches eof.

I learn something new every day. Thanks.

Sinan