First question... windows or unix? I know how to do it in Unix... the way I know requires you have the zip command for unix... to FTP you can use Net::FTP 
use Net::FTP;
`/usr/bin/zip -r zipfile.zip /directory/to/zip/`; #-r means recurse

my $ftp = Net::FTP->new("some.host.name", Debug => 0);
$ftp->login("anonymous",'me@here.there');
$ftp->cwd("/incoming");
$ftp->put("zipfile.zip");
$ftp->quit;

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or to email you can use Mail::Sender 
use Mail::Sender;
`/usr/bin/zip -r zipfile.zip /directory/to/zip/`; #-r means recurse

my $sender = new Mail::Sender
   {smtp => 'mail.yourdomain.com', 
    from => 'your@address.com'};

$sender->MailFile({to => 'some@address.com',
  subject => 'Here is the file',
  msg => "your message here.",
  file => 'zipfile.zip'});

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I believe both of these modules will work in windows as well... but the zip command would be different...

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In reply to Re: Zip up and email by suaveant
in thread Zip up and email by Anonymous Monk

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