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Ok I am running Mandrake 9.1. I wrote a simple program to test sendmail and it does not work. As soon as I reference sendmail I get a 500 server error. Do I need to install a module for perl? I installed CGI.pm already. Please see the program below.

Quote:

#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
use CGI ':standard';
use warnings;

my $test= $ENV{'HTTP_USER_AGENT'};
my $version = $CGI::VERSION;
my $vemail;
my $from="lukeharris_79\@msn.com";
my $to="lukeharris\@msn.com.com";
my $subject="I\'m sending myself a test e-mail!";
my $sendmailpath="/usr/sbin/sendmail";
$vemail= param('vemail');

open (SENDMAIL, "| $sendmailpath -t");
#print SENDMAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
#print SENDMAIL "From: $from\n";
#print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n\n";
#print SENDMAIL "This is a test e-mail.\n\n";
#print SENDMAIL "I like to make lists:\n";
#print SENDMAIL "- One\n";
#print SENDMAIL "- Two\n";
#print SENDMAIL "- Three\n\n";
#print SENDMAIL "Bye!\n\n";
#print SENDMAIL "-Luke Harris";
#close (SENDMAIL);

print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
print "<html><head></head><body>";
print "<H1>HELLO WORLD!</H1>\n";
print "your viewing this page with $test <br>" ;
print "your email is $vemail <br>";
print "your using CGI.pm version $version<br>";
#print "server admins email is $email<br>";
print "subject is $subject<br>";
print "to is $to<br>";
print "path is $sendmailpath<br>";
print "from is $from<br>";

print "</body></html>";

The program works until I uncomment the sendmail section. I tried uncommentting just the open and the close and sill nothing. It can be noted that the program receives $vemail from a test form and that works.

Oh yeah this is the results of "whereis sendmail" not sure what one to use as my path.

Quote:

[root@localhost root]# whereis sendmail
sendmail: /usr/sbin/sendmail.postfix /usr/sbin/sendmail /usr/lib/sendmail /usr/share/man/man1/sendmail.1.bz2

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks,

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