Sendmail Probs...

[Guest_imported]

Ok, can some one please give me a pointer as to why this code isn't working? As far as I can see it should, but it doesn't

open(MAIL, "|$sendmail -t") || die &error;
print MAIL "To: $email  \n";
print MAIL "From: $email \n";
print MAIL "Reply-to: $email \n";
print MAIL "Subject: Your Sites Variables \n\n";
print MAIL "All of the major variables that you will find with your hosting / site are listed below. The IP address that sent it was $ip....\n\n";
print MAIL "\n\n";
close(MAIL);

Thanks

Andy

 

[MikeLacey]

Andy,

It looks fine..... what does it do? Mike
michael.j.lacey@ntlworld.com
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[Guest_imported]

Nothing No errors, no calling of the error sub, no anything Not even anything in the error log!

Andy

 

[perlone]

Maybe it's cause of the sendmail variable. Ask your host about your sendmail root. But usually, it's one of these:

open(MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t"

or

open(MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t" -Aaron

 

[tsdragon]

You do have a subroutine named "error", don't you? The "die &error" part will try to invoke a subroutine named error if the open does not work. If you don't have one, the program will abort. Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

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

 

[Guest_imported]

Yeah, I have a sub called error. It is;

sub error
{
print header;
print "There was a prob opening $sendmail";
}

Thanks. Any other ideas?

Andy

 

[MatthewP]

Obvious I know, but could it be possible that the $email variable is wrong? Perhaps you could post the whole script - sounds like it's someting else in the script other than that routine.

Matt.

 

[tsdragon]

Here's a good, quick way to make sure that what is getting sent to sendmail is what you want. Change the open statement temporarily to this:

$| = 1; # flush stdout after every print
print "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
open(MAIL, "|cat") || die &error;

That will cause your sendmail output to be displayed to your browser, and you can check that the email message is formatted properly and everything is there.
Tracy Dryden
tracy@bydisn.com

http://www.bydisn.com

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