[vox-tech] Perl programming problem

[Richard S. Crawford]

Mitch Patenaude said:

> The PERL module you are using is almost certainly just passing off the
> mail to your underlying Mail Transport Agent (MTA).  It looks like your
> home machine's MTA isn't configured correctly.  You can try to send the
> mail directly from the command line with the command mail.  Type is
> 'mail rcrawford at unexmail.ucdavis.edu' at the command line, type in a
> message, and terminate with a single period on a line by itself. (the
> way email used to be done in the old days :-)  If that works, then the
> MTA is configured correctly.

I was afraid it was probably an MTA issue.  The host machine is running
RH8, which came with Sendmail.  I'm not sure I'm heroic enough to take on
the task of configuring Sendmail, but I suppose it's either that or
install a new MTA.  Hmm.


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