If all that you want to do is send e-mail, just use Exchange as if it were a normal SMTP server and use a module such as Mail::Sender to construct and send the mail. The implementation is all in Perl so there are no OLE related complications.

This method should work equally well regardless of whether your mail system is based on Exchange, Lotus Notes, Sendmail etc. I make extensive use of this module to send e-mail via our Lotus Notes infrastructure.

inman