Hour 22. Email from CGI
Undoubtedly, in surfing the Web, you've filled out a form that would later be used to send email. These forms are commonly used for mailing lists, trouble reports, customer support, fan mail, and every other use imaginable.
In this hour, you'll learn how to send mail from Perl, and you'll look at a short sample Web page that you can use to generate email. The creative uses of this page I'll leave to you.
In this hour you'll learn
A little bit about how Internet mail works
How to send mail under UNIX and non-UNIX systems
How to set up a Web form to send mail
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