After looking through many of the mail modules, I've settled on Mail::Sender. I need authenticated SMTP, so that drops out several other options and I don't want to pull in multiple modules manually to get the necessary authenticating done

My problem comes in with using Mail::Sender from within CGI scripts. I copied the exact same code snippet to a command line script and never get the same problem. The problem is simple: for every few emails sent, Mail::Sender fails with a "Service not available, connection not established" error. The culprit-type script is below. Does Mail::Sender change behaviour under CGI, because I have never once got this error from the command line version: 

#!c:/perl/bin/perl -w
$|++;

use strict;
use Mail::Sender;

$Mail::Sender::NO_X_MAILER = 1;
$Mail::Sender::NO_MESSAGE_ID = 1;

open my $log, '>>', 'c:/logcmd.log'
   or die "open failed: $!";

my $email = Mail::Sender->new( {
   smtp    => 'smtp.somewhere.net',
   auth    => 'LOGIN',
   authid  => 'someuser',
   authpwd => 'somepasswd',

   on_errors => 'die',
   debug     => $log
} );

$email->Open( {
   from    => 'MyName <me@myserver.com>',
   to      => 'TheirName <them@theirserver.com>',
   subject => 'Some Subject'
} );

$email->SendEnc(<<"END_EMAIL");
This is the body of the email message. Yes, that is right.
foo bar baz.... blah.

END_EMAIL

$email->Close();

close $log;

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In reply to Mail::Sender connection failing under CGI by Anonymous Monk

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