#! /usr/bin/perl -w use Mail::Sendmail; use Mail::Sendmail qw(sendmail %mailcfg); $mail{smtp} = qw(imap.googlemail.com); $mail{port} = 993; %mail = ( To => 'xxx@gmail.com', From => 'yyy@gmail.com', Message => 'This is a very short message' ); if ( sendmail(%mail) ) { print "OK.\n"; } else { die $Mail::Sendmail::error; } print "OK. Log says:\n", $Mail::Sendmail::log;