Thanks Corion,

I stand corrected. It is nice to see the differences in coding and grammer that are used around the globe.

My mistake... 

$Buffer = '/0';

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... unless it is impossible to write a NULL character to a character string.

Thanks for the nod for  use strict and  use warnings. I am new to Perl, and I may take this opportunity to say, Perl is wierd but necessary. I will investigate 'taint' mode.

Like I said the 'read into buffer and then write out' method was inherited from FormMail, I thought it was dodgy at the time, but then thought that's the way perl scripts work. I realise that a large mailing list would ruin a cache in microseconds. The reason I didn't include his name was that there is <20% of his code remaining.

The rest of your comments I don't really agree with, prbably primarily because I want to keep this script to a single file.

Thanks again, R

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