using vms mail

[Martin Evans]

Hi can anyone give me any tips on how to interact with vms mail?

I thought something like this may work but it doesn't play ball,

open(MAIL,"|mail") || die "Can't open mail\n";
print MAIL "send\n";
print MAIL "martin\n";
print MAIL "my subject\n";
print MAIL "some body text\n";
print MAIL "^Z";
print MAIL "exit\n";
close (MAIL);

perl --version

This is perl, v5.6.1 built for VMS_AXP

Thanks in advance,

Martin Evans