This line: 

$Email_address eq $four;

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should read: 
$Email_address = $four;

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eq is for string comparison. = is used for all scalar assignments.

I'd also add error checking to the open call: 

open (FILE, "$data") or die "Failed to open $data: $!\n";

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You need to find some way to see debugging output. The original code had debug statements going to the browser. Do those work? If so, I'd start adding some debugging so you can get an idea where things are going wrong. It will be hard to pinpoint without the ability to debug.

In reply to Re: Re: emailing with an address taken from a database by steves
in thread emailing with an address taken from a database by jonnyfolk

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