CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work

kazin_ has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

On an old computer I created a couple of simple webforms years ago with a Perl script that would take a few html form fields, run through a script, and send an email to my inbox. On my new computer with Windows 8.1 I have used the same files (copy/paste) but when I submit the web form I get an IIS error:

"The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process."

I whittled down the script and it seems to get hung up on the Carp and SendEasy portions. Here is the script that works on my old XP computer but not 8.1:

use CGI;
 use CGI::Carp qw(carpout fatalsToBrowser);
 use Mail::SendEasy; 
print "Content-type: text/html\n\n";
 print "Done";

my $cgi = new CGI;
 my $Reminder = $cgi->param('Reminder');
 my $message =<<EOF;
 <html>
 <head>
 </head>
 <body>
 $Reminder
 </body>
 </html>
 EOF

my $status = Mail::SendEasy::send(
 smtp =>  'localhost' ,
 user => 'user' ,
 pass => 'password' ,
 from => 'me@domain.com' ,
 from_title => 'ME' ,
 to => 'me@domain.com' , 
 subject => "Reminder Message" ,
 html =>  $message,
 msgid => "0101" ,
 ) ;

if (!$status) { Mail::SendEasy::error ;}
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I've verified that perl is properly installed through IIS 8 using various test scripts.

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Re: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by neilwatson (Priest) on Jun 12, 2014 at 16:08 UTC
Do you have an smtp server running on 'localhost' and what do its logs show? <rant>Domain.com is not a reserved domain, indeed it is owned by a corporation. Always use example.com, which is reserved for this purpose.</rant> Neil Watson watson-wilson.ca	[reply]
Re^2: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by kazin_ (Initiate) on Jun 12, 2014 at 17:37 UTC
Unfortunetly, Neil, the code itself isn't the issue. The code I presented is the format in which the form is filled. The fields for stmp points to my mail relay server, and my domain is pointing to my actual domain. I didn't think it would be a wise idea to shooting out sensitive information out on the internet. Again, it seems that the functionality of Carp and Mail::SendEasy doesn't seem to work within Perl combined with IIS8, yet I can present other scripting in Perl to function.	[reply]
Re^3: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by poj (Abbot) on Jun 12, 2014 at 19:59 UTC
I know it doesn't really help fix your problem but the script worked for me on Windows 8.1 and IIS 8 (Activestate Perl 5.16.1). I had to remove a space before EOF though. poj	[reply]
Re: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2014 at 19:14 UTC
That error message sounds like it's hiding the real error from the Perl script. Can you run the Perl script from the command line, and can you look into the IIS logs for the actual STDERR from the Perl script?	[reply]
Re^2: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by kazin_ (Initiate) on Jun 13, 2014 at 13:30 UTC
I ran the script directly through perl and found that it seem that I may be missing a lib file Mail/SendEasy.pm to associate Mail/SendEasy function in perl. Here's my error log. C:\inetpub\wwwroot\site\cgi-bin>perl test.pl Status: 500 Content-type: text/html <h1>Software error:</h1> <pre>Can't locate Mail/SendEasy.pm in @INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/sit +e/lib C:/P erl/lib .) at crf2.pl line 8. BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at crf2.pl line 8. </pre> <p> For help, please send mail to this site's webmaster, giving this error + message and the time and date of the error. </p> [Thu Jun 12 12:24:56 2014] crf2.pl: Can't locate Mail/SendEasy.pm in @ +INC (@INC contains: C:/Perl/site/lib C:/Perl/lib .) at crf2.pl line 8. [Thu Jun 12 12:24:56 2014] crf2.pl: BEGIN failed--compilation aborted +at crf2.pl line 8. [download] Any ideas what version of perl I should look into or another way to get the Mail/SendEasy.pm file?	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by Corion (Patriarch) on Jun 13, 2014 at 13:31 UTC
Most likely, you can install it from CPAN at Mail::SendEasy, using the `cpan` tool that comes with your Perl.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^4: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by Anonymous Monk on Jun 16, 2014 at 14:13 UTC
Re^3: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by DrHyde (Prior) on Jun 13, 2014 at 13:40 UTC
You need to install the module from the CPAN then. On Unix you'd type 'cpan Mail::SendEasy'. No idea how you'd do that on Windows.	[reply]
Re^4: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by CountZero (Bishop) on Jun 13, 2014 at 15:26 UTC
Re^5: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by DrHyde (Prior) on Jun 16, 2014 at 11:09 UTC
Some notes below your chosen depth have not been shown here
Re^4: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by Anonymous Monk on Jun 16, 2014 at 14:16 UTC
Re^5: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by DrHyde (Prior) on Jun 17, 2014 at 11:47 UTC
Re^4: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by marto (Cardinal) on Jun 17, 2014 at 12:42 UTC
Re: CGI::Carp and Mail::SendEasy do not work by Anonymous Monk on Jun 12, 2014 at 23:39 UTC
Do you know what this means? "The specified CGI application encountered an error and the server terminated the process." It means look at the logs for the real error message	[reply]