RE: send emails via perl

> 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";
>=20
> 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 y=
our e-mail from your Perl script without installing other modules.  I have =
sometimes had to use servers where installing extra modules from CPAN was n=
ot under my control.

I was assuming that the original poster's script was doing various other th=
ings and needing to e-mail a report at the end.  Obviously if the script wa=
s only doing an e-mail then there would not be much point doing it this way=
....

Matthew