Hi, I am writing a CGI script to send email to one or more recipients. I have tried using both Mail::Mailer and MIME::Lite, with varying degrees of failure. I got Mail::Mailer to send email out using the following code:

$address='one@example.com, two@example.com';

use Mail::Mailer;
$msg = Mail::Mailer-> new('smtp', Server=>'mysmtp.server.com');
$msg->open({
    From     => 'sender@example.com',
    To       => "$address",
    Subject  => 'Subject',
    });

print $msg 'Body text here';

$msg->close();
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No email ever arrives however, not even a bounce. I looked at the Exim logs on mysmtp.server.com, and it gives the following error:

2003-09-19 10:28:30 SMTP call from (clientname)(localhost.localdomain)
+ [IP address] dropped: too many unrecognized commands
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It's probably a daft error somewhere, but I'm very new to Perl and can't see the problem from the documentation I've read. I tried two approaches with MIME::Lite. The first works perfectly if I sepecify the "To" line as follows:

To       => 'one@example.com, two@example.com',
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but if I use:

$address='one@example.com, two@example.com';

my $msg = MIME::Lite-> new(
    From     => 'sender@example.com',
    To       => "$address",
    Cc      => 'three@example.com',
    Subject  => 'Subject',
    Type      => 'text/plain',
    Data     => 'Body text here'
    );

$msg-> send('smtp', "mysmtp.server.com", Timeout=>60);
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It will only send to the first address in the list. This also happens if I swap the entries for "To" & "Cc" round. The second approach was to to use a loop to send the mail as follows:

use Mime::Lite;
use Text::ParseWords;

# $address is actually taken from a combo box on a web page
# but equals the definition below.
# That's why I have done the array like this.

$address='one@example.com, two@example.com, three@example.com';
@addresses = parse_csv($address);

while(@addresses)
  {
  my $msg = MIME::Lite-> new(
    From     => 'sender@example.com',
    To       => shift(@addresses),
    Subject  => 'Subject',
    Type      => 'text/plain',
    Data     => 'Body text here.'
    );

  $msg-> send('smtp', "mysmtp.server.com", Timeout=>60);
  }

....

sub parse_csv
  {
  return quotewords("," => 0, $_[0]);
  }
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This only sends mail to the first recipient as well. It goes through the loop the requisite number of times. I put a "print" statement in there to make sure. I'm sorry this is such a long question. Hopefully there is an easy solution. I've only used Perl for a week, so I've probably missed something obvious. All help very gratefully received! Thanks, Andy.

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