Sending mail from a CGI

software development
#1

Im trying to send an email out in a perl cgi, the code seems to work fine on my local system, but on dreamhost it does not work.
Im trying to use sendmail(/usr/sbin/sendmail) but it does not seem to be working. I have tried directly calling sendmail from the command line and sending myself an email(on another dreamhost account), but the email never appears. I sendmail not usable? Should i send mail out using SMTP instead?

#2

On Dreamhost, the path to sendmail is /usr/sbin/sendmail.

–rlparker

#3

Woops, that was a mistake in my original post. I was using /usr/sbin/sendmail

#4

Ok, I figured it out, the message that my script was passing to sendmail started with a newline, once that was removed it works.

#5

Ah! Yep, that would do it! Thanks for taking the time to post back and share what the problem turned out to be. That’s useful to others faced with a similar problem! :slight_smile:

I’m glad you got it working!

–rlparker