From: James Gray <james@...>
Date: 2008-11-18T03:45:37+09:00
Subject: Re: [solved, kinda] Re: Why does tmail stop my CGI script form working?

On Nov 17, 2008, at 11:38 AM, Chad Perrin wrote:

> On Tue, Nov 18, 2008 at 01:20:16AM +0900, Jeremy McAnally wrote:
>> Why not try mailfactory if you're just sending e-mail?  If it's just
>> tmail screwing up.  I thought perhaps you were parsing e-mail or
>> something.
>
> The problem actually appears to be one of something on the server  
> being
> misconfigured so that I cannot properly install and `require` gems.
>
> Also . . . as someone pointed out to me off-list, I forgot to change a
> set of single quotes in the `mail` command into double quotes.  The  
> line
> in question should actually read:
>
>    `echo "#{body_c}" | mail -s "#{sub_c}" #{to_c}`

I would prefer to just avoid passing the body through the shell:

   open(%Q{| mail -s "#{sub_c}" #{to_c}}, "w") { |mail| mail << body_c }

You could use mail's escapes to avoid passing the subject as well.   
See the man page for details.

James Edward Gray II