Perl Programming Interview Question:

How do I send e-mail from a Perl/CGI program on a Unix system?

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Sending e-mail from a Perl/CGI program on a Unix computer system is usually pretty simple. Most Perl programs directly invoke the Unix sendmail program. We'll go through a quick example here.
Assuming that you've already have e-mail information you need, such as the send-to address and subject, you can use these next steps to generate and send the e-mail message:
# the rest of your program is up here ...
open(MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: $sendToAddressn";
print MAIL "From: $myEmailAddressn";
print MAIL "Subject: $subjectn";
print MAIL "This is the message body.n";
print MAIL "Put your message here in the body.n";
close (MAIL);
Submitted by: Administrator