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6 Mar 2008Here is a snippet of PERL code which you can use to send emails from your PERL scripts: open (MAIL, “|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t “); print MAIL “From: someFromAddress\@someFromDomain\n”; print MAIL “To: someToAddress\@someToDomain\n”; print MAIL “Content-Type: text/plain\n”; print MAIL “Subject: Very simple email test\n\n”; print MAIL “Body of the message”; close (MAIL); Replace “someFromAddress\@someFromDomain” with an email [...]
Here is some sample code for determining what the file path is to the PERL script containing the code: use Cwd qw(realpath); my $fullpath = realpath($0); If you just do $0 alone in the second line, that only gives you the filename that was executed. For example, if you include the first line of code [...]
This blog is about technology related topics. It will primarily contain problems and solutions to IT problems that I encounter on a day-to-day basis. In addition interesting things I come across either on or off the internet will be posted here as well. I will also include step-by-step tutorials to common tasks people may need to do with their computers.