I'm not using HTML as my output....I'm not sure exactly how or why I should? Let me explain a little better my problem. There is this mass email that has to be sent out to various people within my company. The message I have to send has a word that needs to be italicized. I am using NET::SMTP to send the email so the message is just text. thanks again
That's the point others are trying to make: you can't use italics in a plain text message. To do so, you either need HTML, or RTF, or something similar. You can send a multipart email using MIME, but again, the plain text portion will not have any font formatting, only the HTML or RTF portion.