To Phillip, [EMAIL PROTECTED] is most likely the user your process is running under. Do you have sendmail running? It's really easy to fake the from address.
code snip ---------------------------------------- $mailprog = '/usr/lib/sendmail'; $toEmail= '[EMAIL PROTECTED]'; open(MAIL, "|$mailprog -t"); print MAIL "To: $toEmail\n"; print MAIL "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; print MAIL "Subject: Hello World\n\n"; print MAIL "This is the body\n"; close(MAIL); --------------------------------------- Thank You, Trent [EMAIL PROTECTED] Who is John Galt? phiLLip maDDux II wrote: > > Hello, > > I have a perl program that makes a call to ssmtp on the system to send > out an email. When I send out the email I specify the from: however it > does not work, it always makes it look like the email came from > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Does anybody have any suggestions of what I should look for? Do I need > to give more info to help determine the problem? > > Thank you! > > -- > To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] > with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED] --
