Hi Roger,

Also you probably need all the Mail::Box and its derived modules as well.

I certainly got plenty of these messages

Warning: prerequisite Scalar::Util failed to load: Can't locate Scalar
+/Util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/Perl/lib D:/Perl/site/lib .) at (
+eval 46) line 3.
Warning: prerequisite Test::Harness 1.38 not found at D:/Perl/lib/ExtU
+tils/MakeMaker.pm line 343.
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when running the Makefile.pl from the Mail::Box tar/archive. The problem is, I used

perl -MCPAN -e "shell"
cpan> install Scalar::Util
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and the error message still appeared, even though the install went okay ? Even re-installing Mail::Box

D:\Perl\myscripts>\perl\bin\perl.exe -MCPAN -e "shell"

cpan shell -- CPAN exploration and modules installation (v1.59_54)
ReadLine support available (try 'install Bundle::CPAN')

cpan> install Mail::Box
CPAN: Storable loaded ok
Going to read \.cpan\Metadata
  Database was generated on Tue, 11 Nov 2003 00:45:51 GMT
Mail::Box is up to date.

cpan> q
Lockfile removed.
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and then running the Perl script, still gave the following

D:\Perl\myscripts>\perl\bin\perl.exe checke~1.pl
Can't locate Scalar/Util.pm in @INC (@INC contains: D:/Perl/lib D:/Per
+l/site/lib
 .) at D:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Reporter.pm line 9.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at D:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Reporter.pm
+ line 9.
Compilation failed in require at (eval 1) line 3.
        ...propagated at D:/Perl/lib/base.pm line 62.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at D:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Box.pm line
+ 8.
Compilation failed in require at checke~1.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at checke~1.pl line 5.
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I have checked out all the "prerequisite" warning messages, made a note of those modules, then used the 'MCPAN' / shell to install them. The install appears to go okay, it goes out to the internet , parses through files on FTP sites, and says _that_ module has installed okay. ??

Going back to where I think (but don't really know) where the perl script is stopping, is line 9 of Reporter.pm , which has

Use Scalar::Util 'dualvar';

and I know I have installed _that_ module. The other related code from the error messages are

# msg - "...propagated at D:/Perl/lib/base.pm line 62."

die if $@ && $@ !~ /^Can't locate .*? at \(eval /;

# msg - "compilation aborted at D:/Perl/site/lib/Mail/Box.pm line 8."

use base 'Mail::Reporter';
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I'm just about all debugged out, and have run out of clues.

I have complete the code I started earlier. The additional code is an example on the kind of thing you could do with the Mail::Box::Manager module. Pretty handy I think.

Thanks very much for that additional code, Roger. I guess the big question is, what is different on your Perl setup to mine ??

Thanks a lot, :)

Peter