Perl Sendmail ignores bcc

Can't get sendmail to pickup the blind copy

[nacho_man]

I have been trying to send email via a perl script and sendmail. Worked fine until recently I needed to have the script send a Blind Carbon Copy of the email aswell.

I have filled in the bcc: field but it never sends the mail. I then tried to add a second recipient to see if that worked but it only sends to the first emaill address in the list. Listed below is a code fragment from the script. $to and $bcc hold the email addresses.

$bcc - the email address for this actually appears in the message body, suggesting that sendmail is not recognising Bcc: as header information. If two address are input for the To: field then when I get the email both are shown as recipients but only the first email is actually sent.

open (SENDMAIL, "¦ $sendmailpath -t");
print SENDMAIL "Subject: Order confirmation\n";
print SENDMAIL "To: $to\n";
print SENDMAIL "Bcc: $bcc\n";
print SENDMAIL "From: orders\@mydomain.co.uk\n";

print SENDMAIL "Dear ";
print SENDMAIL "$name \n\n";
.........

Anyone seen this before or know where I am going wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help

Kind Regards

Tony Hyams

[IanKelley]

Have you tried BCC instead of Bcc? Also, put BCC after From.

[nacho_man]

Hi Ian,

Made the changes as suggested and the BCC: field no longer appears in the message body but the BCC: address is not sent still.

Any other thoughts?

Thanks

[IanKelley]

Yes, there should be two newlines between the header and body:

print SENDMAIL "From: orders\@mydomain.co.uk\n";
print SENDMAIL "BCC: $bcc\n\n";

[nacho_man]

Thanks very much, changing the order and adding the extra \n has done the trick.

Thanks for taking your time to supply the solution.

Much Appreciated

Tony Hyams