#!/usr/bin/perl use warnings; use strict; use Email::Stuff; my $objst = Email::Stuff ->to('jophnday@wordsnimages.com') ->from('praecipuus@gmail.com') ->subject('Test Subject') ->text_body('This is a test.'); # This forces Net::SMTP::SSL to be loaded $objst->using( 'SMTP', ssl => 1 ); # Which allows us to do this ... $IO::Socket::SSL::DEBUG = 1; my $rc = $objst->send('SMTP', ssl => 1, Host => 'smtp.gmail.com', PeerPort => 465, username => 'praecipuus', password => 'xx***xx', Debug => 1, );