According to Paul J. Schinder: > It should work either way. What did you have in place of mailhost? (If it > was a variable, then only double quotes will interpolate the value of the > variable into the string.) mail.flash.net $smtp = Net::SMTP->new( "mail.flash.net" ); When I get home tonight I can e-mail you the program if you like. Or rather the part which was causing the problems. :-) It's straight out of the examples in the POD stuff. Example #3. ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch