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How do I send email using PHP/Perl?
PHP provides a handy function called mail for sending emails. The syntax of usage is:

bool mail ( string $to , string $subject , string $message [, string $additional_headers [, string $additional_parameters ]] )

To specify the "From" field (i.e. who is sending the email), specify "From: your@email.com" in the $additional_headers field.

e.g. mail("my@email.com", "Subject", "Message", "From: your@email.com") ;

For Perl, you can use the Net::SMTP module for sending emails. More information could be found at:

http://search.cpan.org/~gbarr/libnet-1.21/Net/SMTP.pm

You will need to use the auth( $email_account, $password ) method to authorize yourself in order to send an email. You can use any of your email accounts for authorization.

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