I'm sorry if I'm being dense.

Not at all. If it works for me and not for you, all we can do is try and work out the differences, and there are none in that lot. What about threads and threads::shared? I have: 

C:/Perl/lib/threads.pm                                       : 1.62
C:/Perl/lib/threads/shared.pm                                : 1.12

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These are the latest distributions from CPAN. If you don't have them you should try installing them.

I know I was using the fileno()/dup trick to successfully pass socket handles around prior to installing them, but that was probably under 5.8.6 rather 5.8.8. Maybe the combination will sort things out for you?

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In reply to Re^11: Using Threads For Simple SMTP Relay Server by BrowserUk
in thread Using Threads For Simple SMTP Relay Server by lamberms

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