and an attempt to get the data is made so: ...

Why do you need to get at the data in $message by reading from the associated filehandle? (seems like a rather cumbersome way to copy a string from one variable to another... :)

But if you really insist on doing that way, I suppose you have to reset the filepointer to the beginning before reading, e.g. 

use strict;
use warnings;

open my $msg, "+>", \my $message or die "no message $!";

print $msg " foo\n";
print $msg " bar\n";

print "\$message:\n$message";

seek $msg, 0, 0;  # reset filepointer
my $text;
while (my $line = <$msg>) {
    $text .= $line;
}

print "\$text:\n$text";

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Output: 

$message:
 foo
 bar
$text:
 foo
 bar

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In other words, once you have the mail in $message, why not pass it directly to Mail::Sendmail...

In reply to Re: open to a scalar variable by almut
in thread open to a scalar variable by girarde

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