Maybe I've been staring at this a bit too long, but I don't see my problem. Based upon the contents of %unapproved, I expect $action = "do nothing";

What I get is a match on: 

            if (
                    (exists $unapproved{$user}{$server}{'last_mail'})
                && ($unapproved{$user}{$server}{'last_mail'} le $today
+)
               )

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..which I'm unable to explain. A snippet of %unapproved is below. If you feel that you need to see the rest of the code, it's on my scratchpad 
sub processMail

{

    my $first_email_text  = "first notification";
    my $second_email_text = "second notification";
    my $last_email_text   = "final notification";
    my ($year, $month, $day) = Today();

    #my $today = "$year" . "$month" . "$day";
    my ($year2, $month2, $day2) = Add_Delta_Days($year, $month, $day, 
+14);

    #my $second = "$year2" . "$month2" . "$day2";
    my ($year3, $month3, $day3) = Add_Delta_Days($year, $month, $day, 
+31);

    #my $last = "$year3" . "$month3" . "$day3";

    my $today  = 9;
    my $second = 15;
    my $last   = 31;
    my %warn;

    my $unapprvd_conf =
      new Config::General(
                          -ConfigFile      => "$unapproved_file",
                          -ExtendedAccess  => 1,
                          -InterPolateVars => 1
                         );
    my %unapproved = $unapprvd_conf->getall();
    #print Dumper(\%unapproved); exit;
    foreach my $user (keys %unapproved)
    {
     if (exists $option{v} ) { print "USER:  $user\n==============\n";
+ }

        foreach my $server (keys %{$unapproved{$user}})
        {
            my $action;
            if (
                    (exists $unapproved{$user}{$server}{'last_mail'})
                && ($unapproved{$user}{$server}{'last_mail'} le $today
+)
               )
            {
                print "$user on $server last mail = $unapproved{$user}
+{$server}{'last_mail'}\n";
                $warn{$user}{$server} = $last_email_text;
                $action = "send final email\, delete account";
            }
            if (
                   (exists $unapproved{$user}{$server}{'sec_mail'})
                && ($unapproved{$user}{$server}{'sec_mail'} le $today)
                && ($unapproved{$user}{$server}{'last_mail'} gt $today
+)
               )

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Contents of %unapproved

$VAR1 = {
          'hramgr' => {
                        'waredev1' => {
                                        'first_mail' => 9,
                                        'sec_mail' => 15,
                                        'lastLogin' => 'Last login Tue
+ Aug 27 15:54:50 2002 (505 days ago)',
                                        'last_mail' => 31
                                      }
                      },

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In reply to Testing for ge N && lt Y by blink

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