trying to use AIX mail to send a email 2

[jcarrott]

I am trying to send an email from within Perl. I know the easy way to do this is to use MIME::Lite.

I do not have that option.

I typed:
mail -s 'TEST' myname@company.org < test.txt
at the prompt and the file test.txt was used in the body of the email plus the email was sent.

In Perl, I used

$rc=system("mail -s 'TEST' myname@company.org < test.txt");

The process does create the email, but it gets an error.

$ myname.org... User unknown
/home/myname/dead.letter... Saved message in /home/myname/dead.letter

The dead.letter in my home directory does contain the file.

I really want to use a variable from the program called $message_body rather than a file from the system.

It seems I am missing a command to close the editor that created the email.

Can somebody help me??

 

[p5wizard]

Well, for one thing, you need to hide the @-character from perl. I don't know the syntax for it, but you can find that out from a manual.


HTH,

p5wizard

 

[rzs0502]

Correct p5wiz

The @ needs to be escaped
myname\@company.org

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