Doh.  I don't know how many times I looked at it and still didn't see
the word 'mail' prior to my username.
Thanks to all who responded.
Mike

Marcelo Ramos wrote:
> 
> El Sun, 29 Jul 2001 10:31:11 -0500
> Mike Rodgers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> escribió:
> 
> >On page 23 of Learning Perl, there are commands to mail a message out.
> >I have tried to manually send myself a message with mail and it works.
> >The program does not work.  I'm not sure why.  Here is the code:
> >
> >open(MAIL, "mail EMAIL_ADDRESS_HERE");
> >print MAIL "bad news: $somename guessed $someguess\n";
> >close (MAIL);
> >
> 
> Do you write "|mail username\@localhost" ?
> 
> The | and \@ are necessary.
> 
> Regards.
> 
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