I've adapted Stone's code above. I'd like to make the message a bit longer and put in some hard returns so I tried this :

my $msg = "$home->{user}->{Name}, Welcome to the Directory\n\n We hope you will enjoy using this site. \n\n etc etc\n\n";

The hard returns don't work and when I receive the email the text is all one line. Any ideas what I need to do please?

Also can I do something like this

my $msg = "$home->{user}->{Name}, Welcome to the Directory\n\n";
$msg .= We hope you will enjoy using this site. \n\n ";

This doesn't seem to work either. Must get a decent book on perl ...

thanks
Tim Ault
Oxford UK