Greetings, All --

I created a script that reads information from a database, applies that information to address the e-mail and insert the user's name and password into the text of the message (doing an on-line survey for a client).

The code is very basic and has worked well on two different projects. The problem I have concerns the message text. The URL is hardcoded in the message text. The message text is assigned to a variable. The URL was encoded as

HTTP://www.somesite.com/somepage

but appears in a handful of messages as

HTTP://wwwsomesite.com/somepage

There are no special characters being read from the database.

I have not been able to find any pattern to the occurence.

Have any of you encountered this behavior? Any help understanding this would be appreciated.

Thanks!

=== U P D A T E ===

As requested... 

use DBI();
use Mail::Sendmail;

unshift @{$Mail::Sendmail::mailcfg{'smtp'}} , '100.100.100.200';

$dbaxs = DBI->connect("DBI:ODBC:dsn=CLIENT_EMAIL") || die "Connection 
+died\n\n";

$Exe = "SELECT * FROM qryFeedLetter";
$qry = $dbaxs->prepare("$Exe");
$qry->execute() || die "\nBad SQL\n";

while (my $rw = $qry->fetchrow_hashref()) {
    $login = $rw->{'UsrLogin'};
    $FName = $rw->{'UsrFName'};
    $Supervisor = $rw->{'Supervisor'};

     $EmlTo =  $rw->{'UsrEmail'};
        $subj = "Employee Satisfaction Survey";
    $msg = "Dear $FName:\n\nYou are probably aware .. ";
    $msg .= ".. more text .. \nNOTE: In your survey, the word \"manage
+r\" refers to $Supervisor.  .. blah blah blah .. go to http://www.som
+esite.com/somepage  Your personal \"Log-In\" code is \"$login\".  .. 
+more text here, then .. Thanks.\n\nVery sincerely,\n\nClient";
         
     %mail = ( To      => "$EmlTo",
             From       => 'ClientSurvey <soembody@somesite.com>',
             Bcc       => 'me@somesite.com',
              Subject => "$subj",
              Message => "$msg"
             );
    
    sendmail(%mail) || die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
    print "\n\nLogged:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log;
}

$dbaxs->disconnect();

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Win XP, Perl v5.8

The text assigned to $msg is significantly longer than posted here

Thanks again

In reply to MAIL::Sendmail Problem - Updated by bilfurd

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