I'm not sure if this is a documentation bug or if I've come across a special case. I hit a snag when trying to relay MIME::Lite send error mesasages. If I have a malformed "To: " address such as in the following snippet:

sub Send_Msg {
   my ($to, $from, $subject, $body) = @_;
   use MIME::Lite;
   my $msg = new MIME::Lite
         To   => '"some name" anyone@somewhere.com',
         From => $from,
         Subject => $subject,
         Type => 'TEXT',
         Data => $body;
    MIME::Lite->send('smtp', "some_valid_smtp_server_name", Timeout=>6
+0);
    ## the following is the offending statement
    $msg->send || die "MIME::Lite->send failed: $!\n";
}
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The correct address should be of the form '"some name" <anyone@somewhere.com>'. In the above code the program dies with an smtp message but does not display the intended die message. The statement is patterned after the MIME::Lite documentation example:

As an instance method with no arguments, sends the message by the default mechanism set up by the class method. Returns whatever the mail-handling routine returns: this should be true on success, false/exception on error:

   $msg = MIME::Lite->new(From=>...);
   $msg->send || die "you DON'T have mail!";
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However replacing the offending line with the following works correctly:

    eval { $msg->send };
    die "MIME::Lite->send failed: $@\n" if $@;
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Does this reflect your experience and if so, is it worth notifying the module author? Thanks.

--Jim

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