Hour 8. Creating an Email Feedback Form
Web browsing isn’t the most popular Internet application—email is. There are many circumstances under which you might want to send email from a CGI script. You might want to send the data submitted by a user to the person who has to process it, or you might want to acknowledge a user’s form submission by sending him an email message. In this hour, I’ll explain how you can send Internet email from a CGI program. The following topics will be discussed:
Real-world examples that illustrate why you’d want to send email from CGI scripts
A brief overview of how Internet email works
Using the Net::SMTP module to send mail using Perl
How to use sendmail to send email messages from the command line of a UNIX-based ...
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