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Learning Perl Exercises

Extra programming problems for those going through Learning Perl from O'Reilly Media.

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I'm a sysadmin who has very little experience with perl (who am I kidding, none). I recently came across some legacy code that "broke" due to migrating systems which leads me to some questions. Specifically the problem had to do with UTF8 support. Our environment requires supporting french characters.

what are the pros and cons of using these two?:
# open(MAIL, "| /usr/sbin/sendmail -t -oi")
# use Net::SMTP;

postfix is installed on all systems in question. If it matters the old systems are rhel7 based and the new systems are rhel9 based.

In my attempts to troubleshot the code vs system issues - using NET::SMTP worked very well for me. But the Devs not wanting to update their code insist I find a solution for their old sendmail version. That was done by setting postfix to "smtputf8_enable = no".

So what are the pros and cons of each method?
What are use cases for one over the other?
Are there other better modern ways of sending email either with perl directly or by using the systems smtp app?

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