Linux Hosting, Emailing with sendmail

[alongwor]

Hi all,

So my big challenge at the moment is sending out emails under certain circumstances as may have been seen from another thread. there seems to be a lack in definitive information on how to send email out from certain hosting packages. The hope is that this thread becomes a definitive resource with working code.

At the moment I am trying this will the "sendmail" command called from within a perl script (no extra modules are needed for this). the code below is called when I need to sent an email. So far this will send a mail message to a mailbox that is part of my domain but not an external mailbox.

Does anyone know how to modify the following to get the mail beyond my own domain?

&smtpSendmailCmd ('alongwor@mydomain', 'mailbox@mydomain', 'mailbox@gmail.com', 'Hello world', 'Hello out there');

sub smtpSendmailCmd {
    my ($fromAddr, $toAddr, $ccAddr, $subject, $msg) = @_;
    
    my $SENDMAIL_CMD = "/usr/sbin/sendmail -t";
    unless(open (MAIL, "| $SENDMAIL_CMD")) {
        print "error.\n";
        warn "Error starting sendmail: $!";
    }
    else {
        print MAIL "From: $fromAddr\n";
        print MAIL "To: $toAddr\n";
        print MAIL "CC: $ccAddr\n";
        
        print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n\n";
        print MAIL $msg;
        close(MAIL) || warn "Error closing mail: $!";
    }
}

[Jacob]

Hi,

What happens when you try and send to an external mailbox?

Regards,

Jacob

[alongwor]

I am really not sure, the code does not throw any errors.
Simply that the email is only received at the mailbox for mydomain and not any external domain.

[alongwor]

Sorry, scrap what I said...
The mail does arrive if I change the domain... I will check now if my original test was being throw in the spam folder or similar.

So for reference, the original code should work for people using linux hosting.