You can take Perl out of the network loop (although it works for most people out there). Some of our customer use EIMS as the mail agent and pipe mail to EIMS using MailBurst's drop folder. (Letting any script or app create and send mail to 1 or thousands in an easy operation... just create a file and move it to the MailBurst drop folder, and MailBurst takes care of handing it off to EIMS). Using tried and true EIMS to handle your SMTP work is simple and stable. Of course the Perl network stuff should be too, but you did ask for another option. David David M. Dantowitz david@dantowitz.com 973-564-8670 voice 973-564-8641 fax CD-ROM, Kiosk, Macromedia Director, Shockwave, Lingo, Screen Savers, CGI, Internet software, QuickTimeVR, high performance software, computer graphics, super computer research, and parallel computation. Dantowitz Consulting & Research, Inc. http://Dantowitz.com http://www.DigitalStore.com http://LingoNow.com http://www.MailBurst.com for EIMS 1.x, 2.x and SIMS ***** Want to unsubscribe from this list? ***** Send mail with body "unsubscribe" to mac-perl-request@iis.ee.ethz.ch