barrd, that is why am here! To help: myself by learning and others by sharing what I have learned.

When I saw that you were using a *nix specific way of doing it, I knew that someone else would come along one day and ask how to do it on Windows. I could have written a Windows specific version without much effort but why? I didn't want to make it specific to any one OS.

Mr. Muskrat, indeed I hadn't even given Windows a thought, one day hopefully I'll be proficient enough to help others. In the meantime I am learning a great deal from this site, as they say "theres more than one way to do things", a lesson I am learning daily ;)

so sendmail isnt OS specific?

Sendmail (available at http://www.sendmail.org) is a free *nix MTA. A commercial version is also available (at http://www.sendmail.com).

Mail::Sendmail is a simple platform independent mailer. It is but one of the available perl modules for sending email.