having issue with colon in send mail message body... 1

[spewn]

i'm having a time trying to figure out how to pass a colon (no pun!) through to the body of my mail, using sendmail.

unless i put the actual colon in the body, the body doesn't display at all.

$e='[URL unfurl="true"]http://joeblow.com';[/URL]

open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") || return 0;
select (MAIL);
print << "EOF";
To: Joe Blow <joe\@blow.com>
From: My Company <my\@company.com>
Subject: My Subject Here
$e
EOF

close (MAIL);
select (STDOUT);

the above shows the body as blank. i can't figure it out.

this works, however:

open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") || return 0;
select (MAIL);
print << "EOF";
To: Joe Blow <joe\@blow.com>
From: My Company <my\@company.com>
Subject: My Subject Here
[URL unfurl="true"]http://joeblow.com[/URL]
EOF

close (MAIL);
select (STDOUT);

man, this doesn't make sense to me. can anyone help?

thanks!

- g

 

[KevinADC]

There really should be two newlines after the subject header. I also recommend you use a more modern quoting operator like qq:

$e='[URL unfurl="true"]http://joeblow.com';[/URL]
open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t") || return 0;
select (MAIL);
print qq{
To: Joe Blow <joe\@blow.com>
From: My Company <my\@company.com>
Subject: My Subject Here

$e
};
close (MAIL);
select (STDOUT);

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- Kevin, perl coder unexceptional!