Please bottom post.... > I got it. I never thought indentation could cause sendmail to mess up. > As a beginner, I need you try > everything possible to know their pros and cons. Next time - I may > consider using a CPAN module. > :-) > > Thanks
I would disagree here, as a beginner you should worry about the importance of *your code* and let those that have come before you (and failed before you) provide you with the pieces such to remove unneeded complexity. While I agree that attempting to code, what someone else may have already accomplished, is a worthy way to learn, using code for anything remotely important that you are learning with is probably not a good idea, at least in the case that there is already a module available. The problem (and you are not the first to have it) is not understanding the complexity involved in a particular process up front, e-mail is incredibly complex, and sendmail is incredibly complex on top of that so you were inevitably going to hit some obscure bug eventually. So the best answer is use a module when one is available, if you want to *learn* how something is handled then rather than poke around yourself guessing and testing, instead go to the module source! That is the beauty of this open source model! The other nice thing is that by piecing together other people's work, you will gain a familarity with respect to interface design, encapsulation, etc. so that you don't have to fail in the same way others have failed before (aka they had to change things to make them work). http://danconia.org <snip old post> -- Boycott the Sugar Bowl! You couldn't pay me to watch that game. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <http://learn.perl.org/> <http://learn.perl.org/first-response>
