I was just quoting what was in the perldoc.

Part of the problem is I excerpted too fast leaving out my $mailer = new Mail::Mailer; - see below.

$mailer->open(\%headers); is giving the open method a reference to the hash %headers, so the following are equivalent:

my $mailer = new Mail::Mailer;

my %headers = 
(
  To      => 'test@tester.com,
  From    => 'tester',
  Subject => 'results of submit',
);

$mailer open(\%headers);
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and

my $mailer = new Mail::Mailer;

$mailer->open({
  To      => 'test@tester.com,
  From    => 'tester',
  Subject => 'results of submit',
});
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Those two are equivalent because the first creates a hash then hands open() a reference to it using the backslash to take the reference. The second creates a hashref in place by enclosing the contents of the hash in curlie brace {} instead of the normal ().

And yes the error message 'Global symbol "$body" requires explicit package name' does mean you're using strict and need to declare the variable using my. Congratulation on using strict - it's a very good habit to get into.

Having used the open() method, you would then say:

print $mailer  $query->param('Title');
print $mailer  $query->param('Name');
print $mailer  $query->param('Position');
# etc for rest of params
$mailer->close;
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All code here is untested, BTW.

--Bob Niederman, http://bob-n.com

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