PERL sendmail ignores sending assigned value

[rkha...@benabraham.com]

all "print MAIL" commands execute nicely except for the line "this is the item that ...

open (MAIL, "|/usr/sbin/sendmail -t");
print MAIL "To: $to \nFrom: $from\n";
print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";
print MAIL "$name\n";
print MAIL "$address1\n";
print MAIL "$address2\n";
print MAIL "$address3\n";
print Mail "this is the item that does not want to print\n";
print MAIL "$country\n";
print MAIL "\n";
print MAIL "\n$comments\n";

close (MAIL);