Guys, I have a mailform which has a variable that shows the
mailprogram as
"$mailprog = '/usr/sbin/sendmail '
However, as you can see this only works if sendmail is local but I want to use a remote mail server..
How do I change the variable so that my remote mail server understands it?
Well, typing an IP is not working..
Any ideas?
Thank you..

Don't you know what Perl CPAN modules are?
if not take a closer look at:
www.perl.org/CPAN

I found this module pretty interesting for you:
http://search.cpan.org/search?dist=Mail-Sender

Good luck

Ok, here's the deal..
We have a RH 7.1 apache web server which we're hosting 5 domains. These are all basic personal homepages.
Whatever, now a customer asked if we could support formmail (formmail is located in apache, )or not. So we said yes..
We already have the script , since we don't use the apache server and mail server together, we have to redirect the $mailprog variable to our remote mail server. I'm looking for a solution for that.
My search on the web turned up to be unsuccesfull, all variables defined as, ... /usr/sbin/sendmail ' which is stupid. I mean all the people around the world using their web servers as mail server just a stupid line said so?????
Any other ideas, I couldn't find anything in CPAN at all,
Ok there are scripts and everything but they are all the same..
Thank you..

Just becuase you have sendmail on your server doesn't necessarily make it need to be a mailserver. Rudimentary linux boxes should have a form of a mail delivery utility to receive system errors and such. I'd suggest putting a basic sendmail package on the box and deny all access from anything but localhost(this *should* prevent hacks).

Alternatively you could write a lovely little perl piece named sendmail that redirects the message in it's entirety to the actual sendmail server, tho you have to know a lot about what's going on for this to occur.

I stopped using sendmail when I found MIME::Lite

This one package will open a socket to the machine receiving the mail (by looking up the MX records) and deliver it bypassing all executables on your local machine, it would probably even work on a Winders machine.

Two down sides:
1) The program hangs while the lookup and delivery occur so you may need to fork before you invoke the send method.
2) Code already written to pipe things in to sendmail need to be re-coded.