If you use Data::Dumper on your MIME::Lite object you will see that it is just the text string of the MIME formatted email.

So all you need to do to send the same message to a large number of recipients is this: 

$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                 From     =>'me@myhost.com',
                 To       =>'recipient@yourhost.com',
                 Subject  =>'Helloooooo, nurse!',
                 Type     =>'image/gif',
                 Encoding =>'base64',
                 Path     =>'hellonurse.gif'
         );

# add multipart(s) to $msg in the usual way

for my $recipient (@recipients) {
    $msg =~ s/To: (.*)/To: $recipient/;
    $msg->send;
}

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All we are doing is rewriting the To: foo@bar.com part of the header which has the desired effect. You could also just do a Cc like: 

    
my $cc = join ', ', @recipients;
$msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                 From     =>'me@myhost.com',
                 To       =>'you@yourhost.com',
                 Cc       =>$cc,
                 Subject  =>'Helloooooo, nurse!',
                 Type     =>'image/gif',
                 Encoding =>'base64',
                 Path     =>'hellonurse.gif'
         );

$msg->send;

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cheers

tachyon

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In reply to Re: 'pre-MIMEing' an attachment? by tachyon
in thread 'pre-MIMEing' an attachment? by ebodine

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