John Bruin <john.br...@nec.co.nz> asked: > I have inherited a Perl script which sends and parses email. I > am having trouble trying to figure out what the "-oi" and > "-oem" arguments do in the sub below. Can anyone help?
"-oe<mode>" sets the ErrorMode. >From http://www.sendmail.org/~ca/email/man/sendmail.html: ErrorMode=x Set error processing to mode x. Valid modes are `m' to mail back the error message, `w' to ``write'' back the error mes- sage (or mail it back if the sender is not logged in), `p' to print the errors on the terminal (default), `q' to throw away error messages (only exit status is returned), and `e' to do special processing for the BerkNet. If the text of the mes- sage is not mailed back by modes `m' or `w' and if the sender is local to this machine, a copy of the message is appended to the file dead.letter in the sender's home directory. And of course that's not a Perl question. The Perl question probably should be about how you can make your inherited code better. While TIMTOWTDI, I would like to suggest using MIME::Lite for building and sending mails - see http://search.cpan.org/~yves/MIME-Lite-3.01/lib/MIME/Lite.pm#Sending HTH, Thomas -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/
