Can't get to sendmail from standard script.

[wexfordpress]

I am using a published html and CGI perl script combination from
chapter 3 of John Callendar's
"Perl for web site management." The job blows up in the perl script,
probably near here:
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open MAIL, "|$sendmail -oi -t" or die "Can't open pipe to $sendmail: $!
\n";

print MAIL <<"EOF";
To: $recipient
From: $sender
Subject: Sample Web Form Submission

$mail_body
EOF

close MAIL or die "Can't close pipe to $sendmail: $!\n";
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The open doesn't generate a perl error message but the close does:
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[Wed Nov 26 16:04:37 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Program mode
requires special privileges, e.g., root or TrustedUser., referer:
http://hda2/ex_0301.html
[Wed Nov 26 16:04:37 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Can't close pipe
to /usr/sbin/sendmail: Broken pipe, referer: http://hda2/ex_0301.html
[Wed Nov 26 16:04:37 2008] [error] [client 127.0.0.1] Premature end of
script headers: mail_form.plx, referer: http://hda2/ex_0301.html
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All comments appreciated.

John Culleton

[Felipe Gasper]

Personally, I would suggest using the Mail::Sendmail module, which
removes the dependency on the sendmail executable.