[tamarian]

Originally Posted by Spinball

Uninstalled and reinstalled and still got the same problem.
The error is indicative of a missing '}'.
E.g. should be

don't see how the code could work otherwise. Very confused.

The code you posted is identical. The only difference is adding an opening and closing {}. So if one caused an error, they other one should as well.

If unsure, use a freash copy of mail.php, then apply the changes to it, as it may have errors from previous edits.