Hello:

I am creating an automated Mail Manager called automailer.pl that use MySQL and perl modules. I am using MIME:: Lite, Net::SMTP and of course, DBI. The script will run fine for about 40 or 50 emails, but eventually, I will get this crazy error and hte script will fail:

Exception caught: Failed to connect to mail server: Bad file descriptor at automailer.pl line 219

Could not commicate with "mailserver". Connection refused at automailer.pl line 182, <STDIN> line 3.

The code that sends the emails is here:

#### Subroutine for sending email message:

#### Subroutine for sending email message:
sub mailfunc
{
  my($to, $from, $subject, @body) = @_;
 
  use MIME::Lite;
  use Net::SMTP;
 
  my $relay = "gorillatrades.com"; ## Mail Server.
  my $smtp = Net::SMTP->new($relay); ## Mail Object Handler.
  die "Could not commicate with $relay. $!" if (!defined $smtp);

  my @images; ## Stores Images references;
 
  my $message = join(' ', @body),"\n";

  # Create the initial text of the message
  my $mime_msg = MIME::Lite->new(
    From => $from,
    To => $to,
    Subject => $subject,
    Type => "multipart/mixed",
  )
  or die "Error creating MIME body: $!\n";
 
  ##Find all image references
 
  ##Converting MIME type into String:

  #print "$message";
  #HTML
 
  $mime_msg-> attach(Type => 'text/html', Data => "$message");
  my $message_body = $mime_msg-> body_as_string();
 
  #### Send out Email.
  ## Second Send Message Using ONLY MIME
  
  MIME::Lite->send('smtp', $mailserver, Timeout=>60);
  
  eval
  {
    $mime_msg-> send();
  };
  
  $@ and warn "Exception caught: $@\n\n";
  print "Sent Normally to $to.\n\n";
  $@ and warn "Exception caught: $@\n\n";
}
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The failure happens sporadically. It will work fine for 200 emails and then the next day it will fail on 20.
Is there some bug in MIME or Net that I don't know about? could there be something else going on?

- Cappa

Janitored by holli - added code tags