All I want to do is enable perl scripts to use sendmail.

[UnDoug]

Hi,

At work, on our Sun Solaris servers, I write perl scripts that use sendmail to send messages.

On my home FreeBSD box, I haven't been able to get it to work.

Can anyone tell me or point me to a web resource that will tell me how to configure things so that perl scripts can send outgoing mail?

I don't need to receive mail at this point, just send it.

Do I need anything installed/configured other than sendmail?

Douglas

 

[rhycel]

just use "system" for you to be able to send email. This enables you to execute system commands thru perl.

 

[axvpaa]

hi
you do need perl of course . anyway, make sure that the path is right. FreeBSD perl is under
/usr/bin/perl by default.
here's a piece of code to show you how to send mail via sendmail, using sendmail as a regular file:

open(SPAM,"| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t"
print SPAM "From: $who_am_i\n";
print SPAM "To: $uname\@$domain_name\n";
......................
hth,
alex