I'm not sure why it's happening but it just makes more sense to me to try and send two messages while only authenticating once.

Untested code follows:

#!/usr/bin/perl

use Net::SMTP;

use strict;
use warnings;

my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new('smtpauth.earthlink.net', 
                          Hello => 'milkbone.org', Debug => 1) or die 
+"death";

$smtp->auth('batkins86@earthlink.net', '***************************');
$smtp->mail('monitor@milkbone.org');

for(1..2) {
  $smtp->to('test@batkins.com');
  $smtp->data();
  $smtp->datasend("To: postmaster\n");
  $smtp->datasend("\n");
  $smtp->datasend("A simple test message\n");
  $smtp->dataend();
}

$smtp->quit;

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In reply to Re: Sending two messages thru an smtp server with authentication by Mr. Muskrat
in thread Sending two messages thru an smtp server with authentication by batkins

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