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Old 06-03-2009
Problem using mailx instead of mail in perl program
I have a perl program that uses the mail program to send emails. It works fine but because I want to change the return address on the emails to be different I need to use mailx with the "-r" option. the problem is when I change this line to use mailx I no longer recieve "any" emails.

This works
# Send out the email...
`cat $logFile | /usr/ucb/mail -s "Job Status Notice" mike@smith.com`;

This does not work.

`cat $logFile | /usr/bin/mailx -r "xxx@yyy.com" -s "Job Status Notice" mike@smith.com`;




Can anybody see what it is I am doing wrong?
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Old 06-03-2009
Code:
perldoc -q "How do I send mail"

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