Folks, I'm writing a fairly simple application for one of the clubs I belong to. It reads events out of a database and emails those events as an upcoming events to the membership email list. I've done this sort of thing before so this shouldn't be rocket science.

Yet, something clearly bizarre is happening.

I've created a simple module that does the dirty work of setting up MIME::Lite as well as storing the subject, etc. etc. but I'll spare you the details and get to the nitty gritty. Here is the heart of the matter: 

sub send {
  my $self=shift;
  if ( $_[0] ) {
    $self->{message_body} = shift;
  }
  my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
                            From=>'web-committee@bayshoredogclub.org',
                            To=> 'members@bayshoredogclub.org',
                            Subject => $self->{subject},
                            Type=>"TEXT",
                            Data=> $self->{message_body}
                           );
  $msg->send();

}

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Should work, right? It messes up....

The recipient that is passed in is a Mailman mail list. When the email gets to the list and the members of the list actually see it this is what they see: 

An embedded and charset-unspecified text was scrubbed...
Name: not available
Url: <url snipped off>

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If I change the recipient to a normal email account (like my own) the text comes through just fine. What is this odd seeming interaction between MIME::Lite and Mailman? Anymonk have any insight into this?

Peter L. Berghold -- Unix Professional
Peter -at- Berghold -dot- Net; AOL IM redcowdawg Yahoo IM: blue_cowdawg

In reply to MIME::Lite seems to misbehave in a strange way.... by blue_cowdawg

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