On Fri, Sep 12, 2003 at 09:16:14AM -0400, Jeff Elkins wrote: > She who must be obeyed asked me to generate a list of family > birthdays, so I whipped up a perl script to read a flat file at the > beginning of each month and report via mail on who's up... However, it > seems that my exim.conf is not up to snuff. When I enter proper > addresses into my script (i.e. [EMAIL PROTECTED]) delivery > fails with a munged address of: [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- It works > if addresses in the perl script are left unqualified, pointing to > local accounts -- jeff works [EMAIL PROTECTED] fails. Mail seems to work > fine otherwise. > > Where might I have screwed up? > > #!/usr/bin/perl > > open(MAIL,"|exim -bm -f jeff -t"); > print MAIL "To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > print MAIL "From: [EMAIL PROTECTED]"; > print MAIL "CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED]";
Change "@" to "\@" throughout. Double-quotes trigger interpolation of variables in their contents, including array variables like @elkins and @earthlink. If you use the -w switch and 'use strict;', perl will tell you about such mistakes. > print MAIL "Subject: Birthdays\n"; > print MAIL "X-Generated-By: bday\n"; > > print MAIL "Upcoming Birthdays\n"; > print MAIL "==================\n"; Also, you might find this easier: print MAIL <<'EOF'; To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] CC: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Birthdays X-Generated-By: bday Upcoming Birthdays ================== EOF (Be careful to remove the indenting I've used. The EOF *must* occur at the very beginning of a line.) The here-document syntax avoids all the repetitive 'print MAIL' bits, and single-quoting the 'EOF' means that all the text is implicitly single-quoted, which in turn means that no variable interpolation happens, so you don't have to turn '@' into '\@' here. Cheers, -- Colin Watson [EMAIL PROTECTED] -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
