Re: [MacPerl-AnyPerl] [MacPerl] off topic sendmail

[Ronald J Kimball <rjk@linguist.dartmouth.edu>]

On Tue, May 16, 2000 at 06:57:50PM -0400, Allan Greenier wrote:
> Greetings,
> 
> 	Forgive this off topic post...what I really need are some cross
> platform guru's...also it's a fascinating little perl problem. So if you
> are only interested in mac perl issues, you've been advised.

Non-platform-specific posts should be sent to the macperl-anyperl list.


> I had a nagging problem with a simple cgi I was installing. Basic Form
> to email so I downloaded FormMail.pl from Matt's script archives which
> proceeded not to send any mail, althoug returning from FormMail with
> it's thankyou page (no errors).

What do you expect from Matt's Scripts?  :)


> The server was a windows pc.
> 
> I went into debugging mode with a simple 6 line sample from
> sendmail.exe's 'manual'...which also didn't work. Sendmail wasn't closing.
> close(MAIL);
> 
> The fix was:
> 
> print MAIL ".\n";
> close(MAIL);
> 
> in both places!
> 
> 
> 	Now I understand what this does, but I always thought sendmail (windows
> or unix) handled this internally.

Perl should close the filehandle when the script exits...  are you running
mod_perl or similar that caches Perl scripts?  In that case, maybe the
implicit close won't happen when the script ends.


Ronald

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