problme to send a mail 1

[donny750]

hello,

I've use this perl script

#!/usr/bin/perl

unless(open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t")) {
print "error.\n";
warn "Error starting sendmail: $!";
}
else{
print MAIL "From: me\@mydom.com\n";
print MAIL "To: address\@mailserver.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: test subject\n\n";
print MAIL "test mail message";
close(MAIL) || warn "Error closing mail: $!";
print "Mail sent.\n";
}

but i've not received the mails
i don't understand why ?
Can you help me ?

Thanks

 

[KevinADC]

there is nothing wrong with your code per-se. Try like this:

open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail") or die "Error starting sendmail: $!";
print MAIL "From: me\@mydom.com\n";
print MAIL "To: address\@mailserver.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: test subject\n\n";
print MAIL "test mail message";
close(MAIL) or die "Error closing mail: $!";
print "Mail sent.\n";

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!

 

[PaulTEG]

This is hosted on a *nix server?
Have you looked at some of the Perl mail modules on

http://search.cpan.org?

Paul
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[nedmega]

I've tried out your code and it worked fine for me as-is.

I'd start by investigating the mail logs to make sure there isn't a non-perl related issue at work here. Also double-check that the path to your sendmail binary is correct.

Hope this helps.

 

[stevexff]

but i've not received the mails

No, but you will. Don't post your real unobfuscated email address on a forum like this unless you really like spam...

Steve

[small]"Every program can be reduced by one instruction, and every program has at least one bug. Therefore, any program can be reduced to one instruction which doesn't work." (Object:erlDesignPatterns)[/small]

 

[kaaare]

I know this seems obvious, but i want to mention it just in case that's it...
I had to struggle with this problem for a few days, just to find out that the problem was spam filters.

Some mail services require a certain set of headers, including what user-agent was used and other redundancy, using a module solves this, but your message still might end up in the spam folder (where i found mine, after a few days )

 

[PaulTEG]

very valid point, have a * ;-)

Paul
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