Answer:

Sending e-mail from a Perl/CGI program on a Unix computer system is usually pretty simple. Most Perl programs directly invoke the Unix sendmail program. We'll go through a quick example here.

Assuming that you've already have e-mail information you need, such as the send-to address and subject, you can use these next steps to generate and send the e-mail message:

#  the rest of your program is up here ...

   open(MAIL, "|/usr/lib/sendmail -t");

   print MAIL "To: $sendToAddress\n";
   print MAIL "From: $myEmailAddress\n";
   print MAIL "Subject: $subject\n";

   print MAIL "This is the message body.\n";
   print MAIL "Put your message here in the body.\n";

   close (MAIL);

#  more of your program ...

As you can see from this code snippet, sending e-mail from Perl programs on Unix systems is pretty simple. Once you know the "To:", "From:", "Subject:", and message body information, the sending part is very simple!

As a final note, be careful to check the location of the sendmail program on your Unix system. It may be located in different directories on different Unix systems.

Good luck!