open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t")
I believe the author is trying to read the file "sendmail" in /usr/bin ...
1. but what does the option -t do???
2. Also, the pipe | is also used ... y??
-t tells send mail to process the msg from STDIN, reading To:/From: fields
from the header. All you need is a msg like:
To: "ukhas jean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hi Jenson
This is the msg body
in a file (say /tmp/mail.txt) and:
# cat /tmp/mail.txt | /usr/lib/sendmail -t
will mail it.
The pipe at the beginning of the string means perl will send input to
that pipe line, as in:
open(SENDMAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t")
or die "can't run /usr/lib/sendmail: $!"
print SENDMAIL "To: "ukhas jean" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Subject: Hi Jenson
This is the msg body
";
close SENDMAIL;
a
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Internet: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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