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Reputation: 1932

Sending email using perl with sendmail

I am trying to send email using sendmail in perl. Email is sent but the content which I send as Subject gets added to 'To:' in the email. For example, if from address is [email protected], To address is [email protected] and subject is "test subject". I get the email with Reply-to: field as [email protected],"Subject:test.email","To:to"@gmail.com,"Content-type:text/plain"

Here is my code:

     open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -oi -t '$to_email' -f '$from_email'") || ($error_message .= "<P>Unable to open email process.</P>");
     print SENDMAIL $reply_to;
     print SENDMAIL $subject;
     print SENDMAIL $send_to;
     print SENDMAIL "Content-type: text/plain\n\n";
     print SENDMAIL $content;
     close(SENDMAIL);

And if I remove $reply_to and $send_to lines, the email comes with from: field as Apache server.

Any help would be appreciated. I do not want to use any other library like Email::MIME since it doesn't exist on my system.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 985

Answers (1)

zdim
zdim

Reputation: 66873

I am not sure what is wrong with what you show, but here is some working code

my ($header, $From, $To, $Cc, $ReplyTo, $Subject);

$From    = "From: $from";
$To      = "To: $to";
$Cc      = "Cc: $cc_addresses";
$ReplyTo = "Reply-To: $replyto";
$Subject = "Subject: $subj";

# Form the header.  The fields always submitted:
$header = join("\n", $From, $To, $ReplyTo, $Subject, '');

# Optional fields
$header .= "$Cc\n" if $cc_addresses;

open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -oi -t")
    or carp "Can't fork for sendmail: $!\n";
say SENDMAIL "$header\n$msg_cont";
close(SENDMAIL);

Note. There is my $cc_addresses = ''; earlier, which then (possibly) gets built up.

Upvotes: 2

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