If you're bound and determined not to Build on the Shoulders of Giants and use modules then you should consider cutting and pasting the good parts of good modules directly into your code. A good example of this is your admittedly nasty email regex: why not just cut and paste the patented regex from Email::Valid into your code? It works, it's no effort on your part, and it means you don't have to formally import the module. You might also be able to do the same thing with one of the simple SMTP modules to eliminate your reliance on SendMail. Of course, this means your code is going to get long, but then, that's the whole reason why all this stuff was modularized in the first place.

Gary Blackburn
Trained Killer

In reply to Re: interacting with sendmail by Trimbach
in thread interacting with sendmail by synapse0

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