I finally worked out my solution. The problem was to consolidate all the constants that must be modified when the code is installed somewhere, into a single package. Accessible from all other packages that make up the project. 
package Gbl;
# simple holds Global data loaded from the config file eventually
use strict;
require  Exporter;
BEGIN{

}

my @ISA = qw(Exporter);
my @EXPORT = qw();
my @EXPORT_OK = qw();

use vars qw(
  $EmailAddr
  $VERSION
);
$VERSION = sprintf "%d.%03d", q$Revision: 1.0 $ =~ /: (\d+)\.(\d+)/;
$EmailAddr = "a\@b.com";

1;
__END__

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So now all uses of the email address, in any package (or hunk of code) are 
$From = "$Gbl::EmailAddr";
....or somewhere else ...
if ($Sender =~  /$Gbl::EmailAddr/) { ...

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This also allows me to find all direct uses of this configurable data by `grep 'Gbl::' *`.

Thanks all for the help.

In reply to Re: My globals are visable; but undef'ed by Wiggins
in thread My globals are visable; but undef'ed by Wiggins

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