You are absolutely right about eval. I was basing my usage of Net::SMTP before Steve Hay got his grubby hands on it and put eval all over it like he knows what he is doing.

Your not supposed to use eval that much and in the case of sending mail. Normally sending mail is last action you would be doing, so eval will work out good. But as the way Net::SMTP is made today. I would not use it anymore. Someone needs to take that name space back. Instead of making up a new namespace Email because of crappy modules "Net::SMTP" . Then no one tells me and I get to post bad info on a thread and run crappy modules that are bugs for about 3 years now.

It makes it very hard for me to trust any Perl module these days.