A few other suggestions for you:

1) Replace the opening constants with actual constants

i.e: $MAX_MAILS=200;
becomes
use constant MAX_MAILS => 200;

2) A fairly minor optimisation but consider replacing all double quoted strings with single quotes whereever possible

i.e.
$temp_pic= $BASEURL . "/" .
becomes
$temp_pic = BASEURL . '/' (using constants as well :P)

3) s/\s\t\r\n+//i
Does this really need to be case insensitive - you are not matching any characters only classes of whitespace. Check all your regexes as this is an unecessary slowdown (I think :P).

4)Finally, consider using slurp mode for opening any files.
i.e.(not tested code so watch out!)
open(FH,"<$file");
my $data;
{
  local $/ = undef;
  $data = <FH>;          # Slurrp
}
close(FH);

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I would also consider putting all your sub routines into a module and create what I would term a functionality object. You can then use something like 'autouse' and have a routine for each phase of the program. You don't need to split it up then. You could also consider embedding this via mod_perl and preloading the object within Apache (assuming an apache + mod_perl host)

Hope that helps! Contact me if you need any more help :)

Simon

In reply to Re: A few ideas for an old script by simon.proctor
in thread A few ideas for an old script by panamasnet

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