C:\> type test.pl use MIME::Lite; my $smtp_server = 'smtp.example.net.au'; my $from = 'tachyon@nowhere.com'; my $to = 'nobody@nowhere.com'; my $pass = 'example'; my $msg = MIME::Lite->new( From => $from , To => $to , Subject => 'test', Data => "test" ); $msg->send( 'smtp' , $smtp_server , AuthUser=> $from , AuthPass=> $pass , Debug=>4 ); print map {s!/!::!g; s/.pm$//; sprintf "%-20s %s\n", $_, ${"${_}::VERSION"} } sort keys %INC; C:\>perl -v This is perl, v5.8.8 built for MSWin32-x86-multi-thread (with 18 registered patches, see perl -V for more detail) [snip] C:\>test.pl MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> MIME::Lite::SMTP MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> Net::SMTP(2.30) MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> Net::Cmd(2.27) MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> Exporter(5.60) MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> IO::Socket::INET(1.31) MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> IO::Socket(1.30) MIME::Lite::SMTP>>> IO::Handle(1.27) MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 220 outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.example.net.au ESMTP MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)>>> EHLO localhost.localdomain MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 250-outbound.icp-qv1-irony-out4.example.net.au MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 250-8BITMIME MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 250-SIZE 31457280 MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 250-AUTH PLAIN LOGIN MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 250 AUTH=PLAIN LOGIN MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)>>> AUTH PLAIN [blah] MIME::Lite::SMTP=GLOB(0x1b62138)<<< 235 Authentication succeeded [snip] Authen::SASL 2.10 Authen::SASL::Perl 1.05 Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN 1.03 Authen::SASL::Perl::PLAIN 1.04 Carp 1.0701 Config Email::Date::Format 1.002 Errno 1.1 Exporter 5.60 Exporter::Heavy 5.60 Fcntl 1.06 File::Basename 2.76 File::Spec 3.25 File::Spec::Unix 1.5 File::Spec::Win32 1.6 FileHandle 2.01 IO 1.23 IO::File 1.14 IO::Handle 1.27 IO::Seekable 1.1 IO::Socket 1.30 IO::Socket::INET 1.31 IO::Socket::UNIX 1.23 MIME::Base64 3.07 MIME::Lite 3.021 MIME::QuotedPrint 3.07 MIME::Type 1.19 MIME::Types 1.19 Mail::Address 1.77 Net::Cmd 2.27 Net::Config 1.1001 Net::SMTP 2.30 SelectSaver 1.01 Socket 1.79 Symbol 1.06 Time::Local 1.17 XSLoader 0.08 constant 1.08 integer 1.00 overload 1.04 re 0.0601 strict 1.03 utf8 1.06 vars 1.01 warnings 1.05 warnings::register 1.01