I am not sure what type of system you are on but if you are running the perl script on a UNIX type of machine and sendmail is installed and functioning then you may wish to resort to using a system() call at the end of your script. (barring that this does not run every 5 seconds) My preference when only sending one (and always the same) email out after a script would be to: system("usr/sbin/sendmail djohnson\@someplace.com mailfile"); # usr/sbin/sendmail is the location and executable of the sendmail program (UNIX, LINUX, etc.) # djohnson@... self explanitory # mailfile a text file containing the information you want mailed. This can even be created by the script Good Luck, Doug -----Original Message----- From: Yacketta,Ronald J [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, May 23, 2001 4:52 PM To: Beginners (E-mail) Subject: mail Folks, I search CPAN and found a good deal of Mail packages, seeing that I am frankly new which of them would you recommend to use in a perl script that will be sending a single email at the completion of a set of tasks? -Ron == ______ /_____/\ Ronald J. Yacketta /____ \\ \ Solaris System Engineer /_____\ \\ / One Pyrex Place /_____/ \/ / / Elmira, NY 14902 /_____/ / \//\ \_____\//\ / / \_____/ / /\ / Phone: 607-377-8328 \_____/ \\ \ Fax: 607-377-8329 \_____\ \\ Cell: 607-368-0208 \_____\/ email: [EMAIL PROTECTED] == I sense much NT in you. NT leads to Bluescreen. Bluescreen leads to downtime. Downtime leads to suffering. NT is the path to the darkside. Powerful Unix is.