Hi all, I'm currently pondering a perl script that can mass email clients from a database.. this is what I have so far but I'm very unsure what the best method of actually sending the email is. I want to be able to send HTML e-mail's with a gmail account I have created.

my @email_list = ();
open(LIST,'<',"email_database.txt") or die "$!\n";

while(<LIST>){
   chomp $_;
   push(@email_list,$_);
}
close(LIST);

foreach my $address(@email_list){
   sendmail($address);
}

sub sendmail{
   my $address = $_[0];
   # what should I use here?
   if( mail was sent ) {return true}
}

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In reply to mass emailing perl scrpt by Rudolf

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