[vox-tech] Perl programming problem

[Ken Herron]

Richard S. Crawford wrote:

> my $fromAddress='rcrawford at unexmail.ucdavis.edu';
> my $toAddress='rcrawford at unexmail.ucdavis.edu';
> my $body="Neo is down as of $timeString\n";
> my $mailer=open ({From => $fromAddress, To => toAddress, Subject=>$subject});
> print $mailer $body;
> $mailer->close();

My guess is that you're not setting the envelope sender address, which 
is used during the SMTP exchange. The From parameter may only be setting 
the header sender address, which appears in the "From" header.

Reconfiguring your system's SMTP software shouldn't be necessary, unless 
the system in question is the official mail handler for 
unexmail.ucdavis.edu. I don't know what mail-sending module you're 
using, but see if it offers a way to set an additional sender address.