I am sending some mail via Net::SMTP. In the PODs regarding the recipient method, it says 
The `recipient' method can some additional OPTIONS
which is passed in hash like fashion, using key
and value pairs.  Possible options are:

 Notify    =>
 SkipBad   => ignore bad addresses

If `SkipBad' is true the `recipient' will not
return an error when a bad address is encountered
and it will return an array of addresses that did
succeed.

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My first point of confusion is about the Notify option. What does it do?

However, what I'm really interested in is the SkipBad option.

I would like, as it says, to get back a list of addresses that did succeed.

However, a simple test: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use Net::SMTP;
my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('rintintin.colorado.edu');
die "Ugh." unless defined $smtp;
my @recipients = $smtp->recipient('collin.starkweather@colorado.edu','
+joe@flugwumpet.com', Notify => 1, SkipBad => 1);
print "Recipients are [@recipients]\n";

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returns 
What? ~/bin/test.pl
Recipients are [0]
What?

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(Note I also tried it without the Notify option.)

The first address I know to be good, the second bad. The PODs are fairly unambiguous. Is this just bad documentation? Has anyone else actually gotten this option to work? Am I totally misreading what seems to be a fairly straightforward statement of how it works?

Any help from someone who has either gotten this to work or positively knows whether it should work or not would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance, brothers :-)

Edit Masem 2001-08-24 - PRE to CODE tags

In reply to Simple Net::SMTP question by Starky

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