Distinguished monks, I am trying to patch together a simple little app to forward e-mails through Evolution (pipe message to shell command) back out into the world though a SMTP server. The command line format is: perl smtp_mail somebody@somewhere.com Message I've got this in a shell script: /usr/bin/perl /misc/smtp_mail somebody@somewhere.com $1 I can execute the code below from the command-line and it works fine. I can pipe the e-mail through Evolution (ie /bin/cat $1 > some.log) to capture the message. But I can not get the code to forward any part of the message. I'm sure I'm missing something obvious. Please help. 
#!/usr/bin/perl
#
#
#
use strict;
use warnings;
use lib '/usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8.0/MIME';
use MIME::Lite;

unless (@ARGV)
    {
    die "1";
    }

if ($ARGV[0] !~ /@.*?\..*?/) 
    {
    die "1";
    }
my $to = $ARGV[0];
my $message;
my $counter = 0;
foreach my $inline (@ARGV)
    {
    if ($counter >= 1) $message += $inline . "\n";
    ++$counter;
    }

my $sendemail = MIME::Lite->new(
                                From => 'me@whereiam.net',
                To   => $to,
                                Data => $message,
                                Type => 'TEXT'
                                );
$sendemail->send('smtp', 'valid.smtp.server') or die "1";

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