> On Wed, Nov 19, 2014 at 02:19:26PM +0000, PHILLIPS M.E. wrote: > > open (MAIL, "|-", '/bin/mailx', '-s', $subject, @addresses) > > || die "Failed to e-mail report: $!\n"; > > what's the point of using perl then?
There's more than one way to do it. If mailx is already installed and configured then this allows you to send your e-mail from your Perl script without installing other modules. I have sometimes had to use servers where installing extra modules from CPAN was not under my control. I was assuming that the original poster's script was doing various other things and needing to e-mail a report at the end. Obviously if the script was only doing an e-mail then there would not be much point doing it this way.... Matthew
