I think that I have a pretty good understanding of basic perl and programming theories. What I don't understand is why what appears to be identical calls with identical data is resulting in two different outcomes.

• True, I should add .pgp as a file that will result in a .decrypt extension... or just add .decrypt on the end regardless of what the original extension is.
• The program dies at the end with one call to an email routine and messages if there was an error. Basically the same thing, and yes a little bit more processing, nothing too bad.
• The program is checking with a regex against a list of signed keys that we have. The validity here lies in the PGP encryption system, not the power of Perl regex.
• My possible intent was to have the null character imply that as long as a trusted, signed key was recognized as the signature then not to worry, but specifiying a particular sender in the perl would add some error checking in the system.

What more do you want of the code? It will be hard for me to post the entire code since it is company material, but if you have a thought process about something going onn, I will surely put up pertinent pieces. In all there is at most 100 lines that are executed.

the_Don
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