[H-GEN] Email "from"

[Christopher Biggs]

(Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs Christopher Biggs <chris at stallion.oz.au>)

Luke Grant <skywalke at webexpress.net.au> moved upon the face of the 'Net and spake thusly:

> (Note reply-to: being general at humbug.org.au vs "Luke Grant" <skywalke at webexpress.net.au>)
> 
> hey guys,
> 
> I have written an email CGI for this particular customer and he specificaly
> wants it in perl so he can update it.
> 
> Anyways, i need to be able to get the from:blah at host.blah to be
> configurable.
> unfortunately i can't work out how to do this in perl.....
> 
> i currently have the email being sent in the following format.

bypass /bin/mail.

Inject your message straight to sendmail.

open (PIPE,"|sendmail -t");
print PIPE "To: Someluser\n";
print PIPE "From: someotherluser\n";
print PIPE "Subject: blah\n";
# etc. etc. 
close PIPE; # mail gets sent now


Surely there's a Perl module to do this already!  Check CPAN.

cjb

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