> Better would be... > <snip> And better still would be no command execution at all: use Net::SMTP; my $email = <<EOM; To: $to From: $from Subject: $subject ... ... EOM my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new("mailsever.host.com"); $smtp->mail($from); $smtp->to($to); $smtp->data(); $smtp->datasend($email); $smtp->dataend(); $smtp->quit(); ...No command execution at all, and no need to have the issue-prone sendmail binary even installed on the system. John -- # John Madden weez@freelists.org # MailandFiles.com: Your mail, your files: http://www.mailandfiles.com # FreeLists: Free mailing lists for all: http://www.freelists.org # Linux, Apache, Perl and C: All the best things in life are free!