I believe filename is the name that is put into the email as the hypothetical filename of the attachement. $attach_file seems to me more interesting as it is the name of the actual file on disc that is attached. And $attach_file is printed into the logfile a bit earlier in this line: $Log->debug("found attach_file $attach_file");

MichaelMeyer, apart from following apls advice you might check whether in the case that the script hangs the attach_file exists and is readable and the filename doesn't have some strangeness (i.e. is an empty string, begins with '..', '-' or has spaces in it).

In reply to Re^4: Mail::Sender hangs once in a while by jethro
in thread Mail::Sender hangs once in a while by MichaelMeyer

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