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> [ snip ]
> 
> I did suggest a very quick, easy and effective fix. It would have taken 
> you less than two hours to download, build and configure perl and multiple 
> CPAN modules [1] and been on your way.

Nick.   I did all of what I said *BEFORE* you e-mailed your (excellent)
suggestion.  I will of course be trying what you suggest but cannot yet
perform time travel ;-)

> [2] I don't know what you do with your server, but I do a lot of 
> internet-related stuff and it's an arena of dynamic development. I've 
> never found the ports able to keep up with the software I need. I build 
> perl, apache and their various components (mod_perl, mod_ssl etc) by hand, 
> and rely on the ports for other stuff. OTOH, as someone pointed out, the 

Agreed.  This is what I normally did, but when I ran into a problem with
Postfix (wrt sendmail compatability) I was whacked over the knuckes for
not using the Port :-)

Anyways, thanks much for your excellent advice.

Tony