sorry i should have shown the entire thing. i was hiding the top half because there was info i didn't want to share

#!/usr/bin/perl -w

use Net::FTP;
use File::Copy;
use Net::SMTP;
use File::Basename;
use Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail;
use File::Rename;
use POSIX qw(strftime);

my $date = strftime("%m-%d-%y",localtime);
my $time = strftime("%I:%M:%S",localtime);


###############define all the folders in this game##############

my $whitefiles = "/Users/flieckb/Desktop/aero_2push_white/";
my $tiff = "/Users/flieckb/Desktop/aero_tiff/";
my $mybadmatch="_white.tif";
my $dllist='bflieck@industrialcolor.com';
################################################################
my $current = "$date";
chomp $current; 
chomp $date;

sub mail{
our($mail,$error)=Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail->new( -smtp=>'smtp.gmail.co
+m',
                                                 -login=>'XXXXXX',
                                                 -pass=>'XXXX',
                                                 -port=> '25',
                                                 -debug=> 1,
                                                -timeout=> 1000);

$mail->send(-to=>"$to", -from=>"$from", -subject=>"$subject", -body=>"
+$body", -contenttype=>"text/html");
$mail->bye;
}
my $mybadmatch="_white.tif";
chdir( $tiff ) or mail ($to = $dllist, $from = $dllist, $subject= "can
+ not move $file",  $body ="can not move $file" );
(@tiff_list) = glob "*tif";
my $upload_count = @tiff_list;

foreach my $file (@tiff_list) {
if ($file =~ m/$mybadmatch/is)
{
print "$file is white background match\n";
my $old = "$tiff$file";
my $new = "$whitefiles";
copy ($old, $new) or mail ($to = $dllist, $from = $dllist, $subject= "
+can not move $file",  $body ="can not move $file" );
open FILE, '>> /Users/flieckb/Desktop/whitefiles.txt' or warn $!;
print FILE "$date\t$file\t";
print FILE "\n";
}
    else
{
print "$file :normal production image\n";
}
}
close FILE;


chdir( $whitefiles ) or mail ($to = $dllist, $from = $dllist, $subject
+= "can not get to $whitefiles",  $body ="can not get to $whitefiles")
+;
(@white_list) = glob "*tif";
foreach $file (@white_list) {
   my $oldfile = $file;
#    s/.* //g;
   rename($oldfile, $file);
}
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