The way to automate this task is to let a perl program do those tedious bits of work for you. In this article we will build a perl script which does exactly that. We are going to go step by step giving explanations and analyzing the tricky parts.

Perl, being perl, provides the programmer with more than one ways to do same thing, sending email included. In this script we are going to use sendmail. Sendmail, is an open source program used on most unix computers and some nt workstations as well. Sendmail as its name implies has the ability to send email! We are going to use perl's ability to open pipes to programs to run sendmail and feed it with input. If you are not familiar with sendmail it doesn't really matter though; you should just understand that sendmail is able to send an email, with its headers and content, to your mail gateway which will in turn forward it to its recipient(s).

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