Well, you never use the contents of $address, so rmail doesn't know who you're trying to send to. Unless '55379' is supposed to be a valid user on your system, which you didn't indicate either way.

Personally, I'd use Net::SMTP, or MIME::Lite, or one of the other Perl mail tools. rmail doesn't *seem* to be the correct tool for the job, although I can safely say I know nothing about rmail, other than reading the rather limited man page text.

--Chris

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