whats the problem would be in sending mail?

[khoont]

i am running this program
$MGR_LOGIN is my email account khoont@abc.com

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use CGI;
$query= new CGI;
open (MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi $MGR_LOGIN&quot or &intError( 'Could not open mailer');

print MAIL $query->header;
print MAIL $query->start_html();
print MAIL &quot;<H1>Access Denied</H1>\n&quot;;
print MAIL &quot;<a href=\&quot;#\&quot;>hello</a>&quot;;
print MAIL &quot;<P>You are not allowed access to the requested information</P>\n&quot;;
print MAIL $query->end_html();


close MAIL;
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while running this
what i m getting is
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The original message was received at Thu, 26 Apr 2001 12:18:50 -0700 (PDT)
from xxxx.abc.com [xxx.xxx.xx.xxx]

----- The following addresses had permanent fatal errors -----
<khoont@dna-mail2.abc.com>

----- Transcript of session follows -----
delivermail: can't deliver unauthenticated mail


501 <khoont@dna-mail2.abc.com>... Data format error

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what will be the error here.

what i wanted to do is to send html link to get displayed in mail.

thanks in advance
khoont

 

[tsdragon]

It's probably having trouble with the mail headers. Sendmail expects to see one or more header lines, followed by a blank line. Here's an example:

print MAIL "From: $from_addr\n";
print MAIL "To: $to_addr\n";
print MAIL "Subject: Access Denied\n";
print MAIL "Content-type: text/html\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL $query->header;
print MAIL $query->start_html(); 
print MAIL &quot;<H1>Access Denied</H1>\n&quot;;
print MAIL &quot;<a href=\&quot;#\&quot;>hello</a>&quot;;
print MAIL &quot;<P>You are not allowed access to the requested information</P>\n&quot;;
print MAIL $query->end_html();

Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.

 

[khoont]

Hi,
i did tried that but its doesnt look the problem.

anyone have idea how exactly this sendmail works.

i think this is some other problem ..
thanks
Nilesh

 

[tsdragon]

The mail command I use is &quot;open(MAIL, &quot;| /usr/lib/sendmail -t&quot. Then I print just like I wrote above, except my sendmail subroutine prints the To: address first. Meddle not in the affairs of dragons,
For you are crunchy, and good with mustard.