sendmail & perl

[clarissa1996]

To send a message with perl I use the following program:

$mailprog = "/usr/lib/sendmail -t";
open (MAIL, "|$mailprog"
print MAIL "To: $to\n";
print MAIL "From: $from\n";
printf MAIL ("Subject: $subject\n\n"
print MAIL "$message\n";
close MAIL;

The problem is that if the recipient ($to) do not exist, the error is sent to the user that starts the program and not to the sender ($from).

Is there a solution ?

Thanks for any help. M. Rezzonico

 

[baad]

try to use Reply-To field

don't remember the exact syntax, just remember that there is such a field..

Victor

 

[goBoating]

print MAIL "From: someone\@somewhere.com\n";
print MAIL "Reply-To: some_other\@somewhereelse.com\n";
print MAIL "Errors-to: you\@there.com\n";
print MAIL "Subject: of a verb\n";
print MAIL "Precedence: bulk\n\n";
print MAIL "-------------------------------------------\n";
print MAIL "Message Content\n";
close MAIL;

'hope this helps

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