#!/usr/bin/perl use strict; use warnings; use Net::SMTPS; use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser); use English '-no_match_vars'; our @ARGV = ( 'me_at@gmail.com', 'mypassword', 'tosombody@forumsoftware.com', 'me_at@gmail.com' ); my $body = "Test message"; my $headers = "Content-Type: text/plain\r\n\r\n"; my $smtp_server = 'smtp.gmail.com'; my $port = 587; my $ssl = 'starttls'; # 'ssl' / 'starttls' / undef my $mailer = new Net::SMTPS( $smtp_server, Hello => 'host.mydomain.net', Port => $port, Debug => 1, doSSL => $ssl, ) || die "Unable to create Net::SMTPS object. Server: '$smtp_server', port '$port'\n\n" . $OS_ERROR; $mailer->auth($ARGV[0], $ARGV[1]); $mailer->mail($ARGV[3]); $mailer->to($ARGV[2]); $mailer->data(); $mailer->datasend("Subject: SMTP test\r\n\r\n" . $headers . $body); $mailer->dataend; $mailer->quit; print "Content-type: text/html\n\n" or croak 'cannot print line1'; print "Complete"; exit(); #### B - port to connect to. Default - 25 for plain SMTP and 465 for immediate SSL. B - If the connection should be done from start with SSL, contrary to later upgrade with C. You can use SSL arguments as documented in L, but it will usually use the right arguments already.