I should have noted (which I have now done) that I sent this to http://rt.cpan.org before I posted here. The maintenance cycle for the module seems to be fairly slow, 3.01_05 - a developers release was in December 2005, the last general release was in April 2003. Although demerphq is listed as maintainer the most recent reference in the documentation, to the as yet non-existent 3.02, is from Sam Tregar.

I placed this here so that anyone searching for the problem here would find a simple solution, I spent 2 or 3 hours on the issue, hopefully I can save others the same effort.

jdtoronto

There is a new maintainer. Give it some time while he gets caught up :)

Thanks imp,

Now that I look back I recall that earlier thread. bart must be on holidays as he hasn't been around for a couple of weeks now. Hopefully we can get a few bugs fixed and all will be well. I previously used MIME::Entity for this task, but MIME::Lite is doing what I need and at least has saner access to the underlying Net::SMTP.

jdtoronto