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diff --git a/utils/perlbug.PL b/utils/perlbug.PL
index de848ae009..27fde11ac3 100644
--- a/utils/perlbug.PL
+++ b/utils/perlbug.PL
@@ -137,7 +137,7 @@ my $Version = "1.33";
my( $file, $usefile, $cc, $address, $perlbug, $testaddress, $filename,
$subject, $from, $verbose, $ed, $outfile, $Is_MacOS, $category, $severity,
- $fh, $me, $Is_MSWin32, $Is_VMS, $msg, $body, $andcc, %REP, $ok);
+ $fh, $me, $Is_MSWin32, $Is_Linux, $Is_VMS, $msg, $body, $andcc, %REP, $ok);
my $perl_version = $^V ? sprintf("v%vd", $^V) : $];
@@ -209,6 +209,7 @@ sub Init {
$Is_MSWin32 = $^O eq 'MSWin32';
$Is_VMS = $^O eq 'VMS';
+ $Is_Linux = lc($^O) eq 'linux';
$Is_MacOS = $^O eq 'MacOS';
@ARGV = split m/\s+/,
@@ -822,7 +823,11 @@ sub Send {
open SENDMAIL, ">$outfile" or die "Couldn't open '$outfile': $!\n";
goto sendout;
}
- if ($::HaveSend) {
+
+ # on linux certain mail implementations won't accept the subject
+ # as "~s subject" and thus the Subject header will be corrupted
+ # so don't use Mail::Send to be safe
+ if ($::HaveSend && !$Is_Linux) {
$msg = new Mail::Send Subject => $subject, To => $address;
$msg->cc($cc) if $cc;
$msg->add("Reply-To",$from) if $from;