OpenWebMail won't make

[Bill Schmitt (SW)]

I've been trying to install openwebmail. I've tried portupgrade and make 
and both seem to have the same issue. I get an error message that perl 
5.6.1 or higher is needed and suggesting that I install 5.8. I've done 
that (several times) but I still get the error message. Has anyone come 
across this and have a solution? I'm running FBSD 4.9.

Thanks,

Bill