Don’t see a reason why your code does not work, believe your code is not the exact copy of your original one.

As for the difference between “ and ‘, I made this demo for you. To play with it, first replace the pseudo email server and address with your real ones, then uncomment one of the four commented lines, and see what happens. Explanations are beside those lines.

use Net::SMTP;    
$smtp = Net::SMTP->new('mail.telus.net');
$smtp->mail('p@abc.com');
#$smtp->to('p@abc.com'); #this one works, assume p@abc.com exists
#$smtp->to("p@abc.com"); #this one doesn't work, as Perl will try to r
+esolve @abc for you
#$smtp->to('p\@abc.com'); #this one does not work, as Perl see the add
+ress as p\@abc.com (assume that this address does not exist)
#$smtp->to("p\@abc.com"); #this one works, as we escaped that @
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("To: Peter\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("test\n");
$smtp->dataend();    
$smtp->quit;

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In reply to Re: Strange Situation with Net::SMTP by pg
in thread Strange Situation with Net::SMTP by CodeJunkie

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