unable to put mail id within system command in perl

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I am trying to retrieve mail addresses from a file and storing each of them in a variable. I wish to send mail to these email addresses using perl. I am using senditquiet for that purpose. But doing it in perl I am using the system command. But it shows the below error:

The specified string is not in the form required for an e-mail address.

system('senditquiet -s smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -u myMailId@gmail.com -p my_password -f mail_id@gmail.com -t $mail_id@gmail.com -protocol ssl -files C:\ComboFix.txt');

where $mail_id is the variable where I am storing the mail address.

I even tries the below two statements still the error does not go off.

1. system("senditquiet -s smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -u myMailId@gmail.com -p my_password -f mail_id/@gmail.com -t $mail_id@gmail.com -protocol ssl -files C:\ComboFix.txt");
N.B. : Please mark that here I am using the double quotes and also I put the '\' sign before @ symbol.

2. system('senditquiet -s smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -u myMailId@gmail.com -p my_password -f mail_id@gmail.com -t $mail_id@gmail.com -protocol ssl -files C:\ComboFix.txt');
N.B. Please note that I am using the single quotes here.

Please help me someone.

Thanks

Posted 9-Sep-12 1:02am

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jschell · Answer 1 · 2012-09-09T05:04:00

senditquiet -s smtp.gmail.com -port 587 -u myMailId@gmail.com -p my_password -f mail_id/@gmail.com -t $mail_id@gmail.com -protocol ssl -files C:\ComboFix.txt

There are all sorts of special characters in that.
And a variable that you want to resolve.

Because of the latter - you MUST use double quotes.
But because of that you must escape the specials: @ \

And for testing you need to use the following form.

my $cmd = "senditquiet -s...";
print "$cmd\n";
system($cmd);

Then it will print the command that you are trying to process and you can try that in a console by coping it from the console and running it yourself.

Additional notes
- Presumably you are checking the return value of system for errors.
- You should be using "use strict;" at the top of your perl script.
- You should be running perl with "perl -w ..."

The latter two items should show errors.