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in reply to backticks spits out error, but I want to handle errors! *shakes fist*

Check $? (perlvar). Something like: 

foreach $spamuser (@users) {
    my $CUR_INBOX = "$MAIL_ROOT/$spamuser/cur";
    @ham = `find $CUR_INBOX -type f 2>&1`;
    $? and die "@ham $!";
}

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