thank you
I changed the script like you said. Looks better,
but i still get the errors. the mail que has
one mail in it and here is the out put of the script...

root ns2 perl_scratch--->./mail.pl
Linux ns2.taproot.bz 2.4.18-3 #1 Thu Apr 18 07:32:41 EDT 2002 i686 unknown
8:46pm up 33 min, 4 users, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00
Sat Jan 11 20:46:21 MST 2003
Use of uninitialized value in string at ./mail.pl line 15.
Use of uninitialized value in string at ./mail.pl line 15.
Use of uninitialized value in string at ./mail.pl line 15.

as i mentioned before i belive the problem is
line 15 trying to call vars from @array that dont exist.
Im just not sure on how to fix it. Or if my logic to start
with is sound.

Thanks for the tip,
jd