* Alex Le Fevre <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [010404 15:53]:
> > No it isn't. The =~ s stuff is totally unnecessary, as you're not passing
> > the address on the command line to sendmail...
>
> Maybe I didn't make myself clear. I *am* trying to pass the e-mail address
> from the command line to sendmail. And yes, $recip *is* user\@domain.com --
> I printed it to STDOUT, and it showed up just like that.
You are NOT passing the e-mail address on the command line with sendmail. If
you were, your open() line would look more like:
open MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t $recip" ...
But it doesn't.
> IMHO, if the script works fine when I have a hard-coded To: line, and my
> $recip comes out a replica of my hard-coded To: line, it doesn't seem to me
> to be a Perl problem.
Why are you escaping the '@' with: s/\@/\\\@/ ? There's no reason for it
whatsoever.
/pg
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