Hi everyone. I have an issue using Mail::Mailer in a sub routine, it duplicates the emails up to 4 times like it is looping through. Im fairly new to perl and this is my first time dealing with Mail::Mailer. Does anyone have any ideas on this? I added the eval hoping to be able to log what happens but it seems to make no difference when removed. If you call the sub it will generate 1 to 4 emails. 
sub mailThis {
$mailServer = "serverName";
$ourEmail = 'ourEmail';
$theirEmail = 'theirEmail';
$subject = "Test Email";
$body = "Welcome $username";
  
  eval {
  $mailer = new Mail::Mailer 'smtp', Server => $mailServer;
  $mailer->open ( { From => $ourEmail,
                          To => $theirEmail,
                          Subject => $subject, } );
  print $mailer $body;
  $mailer->close();
  };
if ($@) {
  # sending mail failed
  } else {
  # mail was sent
  }
}

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In reply to Mail::Mailer in a sub question. by docster

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