sendmail

hello all
i have no idea abt perl but am using someone's else work......in the perl prog i am trying to send a mail ; for which i need something called 'sendmail'(using which i can send an email).......what is it and where can i get the program for send mail ??? pls help!!!!

If your on a UN*X system, this should already be there. Consult your server admin or hosting support staff for the location of "sendmail". Normally the paths to sendmail are either:

/usr/lib/sendmail
or
/usr/sbin/sendmail

Mickalo

Well, first of all you have to aware about the O/S of the server.

if it is Unix/Linux, you can use sendmail.exe
if it is NT, you can use blat.exe, sendmail.pm

if you need further help about the programme
mail me to - suzzano@hotmail.com

feroz jaff

You're never going to find something called *.exe on a real *nix server . It's just 'sendmail' with the full path to it usually being '/usr/bin/sendmail'

(files can be compiled with the .exe extension, but they usually aren't [because *nix is smart enough to figure out what to do with a program without relying on extensions])

from what i can get from your original post, i think what you are looking for is the "sendmail" program, well there is quite a few of these, but one that i like to use is this:

sub sendemail {
$TO=$_[0]; #@TO=split('\0',$TO);
$SUBJECT=$_[1];
$REPLYTO=$_[2];
$REMOTE = $_[3];
$THEMESSAGE = $_[4];

open(S, "|$REMOTE -t");

print S "To: $TO\n";
print S "From: <support\@yourdomain.com>\n";
print S "Subject: $SUBJECT\n";
print S "Reply-To: support\@yourdomain.com\n\n";

# Print the body
print S "$THEMESSAGE\n";
print S "\n";
print S ".\n";
close (S);
}


to use this you will need to also add this variable below, try using it as is, if it does not work then you will need to contact your server admin and find out the path to your sendmail and add it in to the var.

$mailserver = '/usr/sbin/sendmail';

ps: this is used for any UNIX server.

hope this helps,
Randor