Greetings fellow Monks.

My problem is thus:
I have a module that sends email by using Net::Telnet to make a connection to the server and then handle the transaction line-by-line. (I know Net::SMTP may be better for this, but I wrote it as a learning exercise.)

The thing is, the module appears to work correctly and the email is sent as required. However, ever since we have upgraded our servers to ActiveState Perl 5.6, it has continued to work, but is now printing the message:

PerlScript Error error '80004005'

The Unsupported function alarm function is unimplemented at C:/Perl/si
+te/lib/Net/Telnet.pm line 2023.
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I'm certainly not calling this function explicitly and, as I said, this message did not appear prior to the Perl upgrade.

This is running in a Perlscript ASP environment on IIS with Perl 5.6 if that helps any.

Can anyone shed any light on the meaning of this error? Or what I might be doing wrong?

Thanks in advance.

J.