I cannot find a real error. Maybe indeed it's just a time-out problem. One suggestion for readability of your code would be to rewrite the definition of your hash like this: 
my %review = ( 'il2e009_book_title_x' => $title, 
               'il2e009_book_author_x'=> $author,
               'il2e009_eval_cds_id_c'=> $cdsid,
               'il2e009_pl_select_f'  => $plselect,
               'il2e009_post_rev_f'   => $post_review,
               'il2e009_post_name_f'  => $use_name,
               'il2e009_review_x'     => $book_review,
               'il2e009_last_updt_c'  => $updt
              );

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I know, it's just a matter of formatting, but maybe (you said you were a newbie) you didn't know you could write it like this...Jouke Visser, Perl 'Adept'

In reply to Re: Problems Trying to Send E-Mail and Insert into Database by Jouke
in thread Problems Trying to Send E-Mail and Insert into Database by Anonymous Monk

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