| re: mailing from a web-executed perl script.
I've gotten this working using sendmail. My script writes the e-mail to
temporary file, and then pipes that file through sendmail.
But, it would still be great to be able to just use a one-liner to send
it through mail instead.
Any suggestions are still welcome.
Thanks!
Nathan wrote:[color=blue]
> This may be a basic task to some of you perl guru's, but I have a
> problem getting a perl script i've written, when executed by httpd, to
> send out an e-mail.
>
> Basically, i have a few variables passed into this script, it writes
> them to a a database, and then its supposed to read the "E-mail list"
> attached to that database entry and shoot an e-mail off to everyone in
> that list letting them know that there's been an update.
> I have what would seem like all of the difficult things done! It takes
> the variables, writes them to the database, reads the list (which is
> currently only my e-mail address" and then sends the message. The
> problem is that the message is empty!
> If i execute the script at a shell it works flawlessly (i need to
> substitute some variables instead of the HTTP POST that it uses via a
> browser, but it works none the less!). I'm starting to wonder weather
> its my code or a unix permissions thing.
>
> Basically, when its executed from a shell, it sends the message, the
> subject and body are correct, but when i run it from a web browser it
> results in a message, with no subject, and no body.
>
> Here's the line which i'm using to try to execute the mail command:
>
> system "/bin/echo $entry | /bin/mail -s \"Log entry added to TN:
> $ticketnum\" $emaillist[0]";
>
> I know it may not be the best way to do it, but like i said, it works if
> i execute it from a shell. This is my first big perl project, so be
> nice. :)
>
> Thanks![/color]
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