A popular mail blasting service does not have a perl api, but thankfully has a curl one i can use :D
My difficulty is in composing the multiline format string that will constitute the mail message.
Ive put together the code and it works as such, but unfortunately one area i am still not getting is adding multiple lines to the message in a clean and efficient manner. The system command usage is not working with me when i try to passing strings to it as an array argument?
how can i debug / solve this ?
I even tried shell quotes as a monk corrected earlier here, but i still dont get the hang of what is going wrong . 
#!/usr/bin/perl
use Capture::Tiny qw/ capture /;
use String::ShellQuote;
my ($stdout,$stderr,$exit) = capture {

  
          my $command = " curl -s --user \'api:key*****\'";
          $command .= "           https://api.****/**/*****/messages";
          $command .= "           -F from='*****'";
          $command .= "           -F to=\'Name <$to_id>\'";
          $command .= "           -F subject=\'$subject\'";
          $command .= "           -F text=\'$message\'";
          my $message = "                -F text=\'test a new line\'";
          @args = ($message);
          
          #this works
          system $command ; 
  
          #this doesnt. result is -1
          system $command @args;
           
           #this doesnt either. result is -1
          system $command shell_quote @args

};
print $stdout,$stderr,$exit;

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