The last few years before I retired, I did everything in perl at work. My coworkers were happy and I kicked myself for not delving in to perl much earlier. I have briefly looked at python code and it has much the look and feel of perl except that in perl, indentation of code is a nice idea where python requires it. I was able to successfully download the module and install it on a HP PC using an AMD64 processor. I also tried installing EWS::Client on an I86 PC running Debian Buster. This PC has no GUI capabilities but does have some x11 libs installed and one of them blows up the module installation just when it is about to successfully complete. This is the first time I have run in to this issue so I haven't figured out what to do except that one of the libraries appears to be the wrong version and once you hit that, it's all crash and burn after that. The blow-up of the cpanp session looks like: Module 'XML::Compile' requires 'XML::LibXML' to be installed Module 'XML::LibXML' requires 'Alien::Libxml2' to be installed Running [/usr/bin/perl -MCPANPLUS::Internals::Utils::Autoflush /home/martin/.cpanplus/5.28.1/build/GeonD3kfeU/Alien-Libxml2-0.19/Makefile.PL INSTALLDIRS=site]... Alien::Build::Plugin::PkgConfig::Negotiate> Using PkgConfig plugin: PkgConfig::PP Alien::Build::CommandSequence> + xml2-config --version Alien::Build::CommandSequence> [output consumed by Alien::Build recipe] Use of uninitialized value $version in substitution (s///) at /home/martin/.cpanplus/5.28.1/build/GeonD3kfeU/Alien-Libxml2-0.19/alienfile line 85. You can sure tell things are going South fast. Resuming the quotation of the output: Unfortunately, Alien::Libxml2 requires the version from the system libxml2 in order to determine if it is acceptable for use, but Alien::Build prior to 1.61 did not provide this information in the probe step. Alien::Libxml2 can still find the system libxml2 on systems with xml2-config in the PATH, or if libxml2 is available from one of the commonly known locations. If you want to detect the system libxml2 with a .pc file via pkg-config, then please upgrade Alien::Build to 1.61 or better That is the end of the quoted text. I am not sure if I can safely do anything about this or if the AMD64 system is the only one that will run this module, assuming it actually does something. I am fortunate to have one system that installed this module properly so maybe I should concentrate on it and hope it will contact the mail gateway. This whole project so far can be summarized as poke, prod, pray and finally swear. I appreciate the responses I have gotten so far. I keep thinking something should work and I can get all the mail messages and even merge them with messages I am getting from the mailer I am using from the cable provider which is a fine mailer when they just leave it alone and aren't tweaking things like how the TLS encryption is started. That knocked me off line from March to May of last year and the support staff I talked to insist they made no changes. I believe they think they were telling the truth but that's what happens when you've got a monster of a company that covers different parts of the globe and we're just blades of grass that get squashed from time to time and it's all in a day's work. I don't know whether to laugh or really cuss. Martin _______________________________________________ Blinux-list mailing list Blinux-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/blinux-list