Hello all, I received the following reply when asking my web host to install the mime::tools module.
"Adding modules to our servers is something we do not normally perform as they could potentially cause an unnecessary risk to customer web sites. Please let us know what you are wanting to achieve so that we may provide advise on how it could be possible. Please contact us if you require further assistance.
Sincerely, PrimeHost Customer Service"
Does anyone have any suggestions as to what I could say as to convince them that this is not likely to cause problems. I only have ftp access so I could try and install the modules "manually" but this would be no easy task, I think.
I need this set of modules in order to do email processing, as I would like to offer free email to visitors to my website. I have almost got the code working on my home win32 pc... but can't even test it on their server. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. Regards, Gerard.

In reply to Convincing ISP to install a module by Gerard

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