The following code sends an email with text and an embedded image. Modify to suit your requirements. It is set up to use Microsoft Outlook email server. Modify "Net::SMTPS->new(... " with your email server particulars.

Special Note: In this sample code, the sender's username and password are assigned to variables. Do NOT, I repeat, do NOT, leave plain text passwords in your code (unless you enjoy having your email hacked). 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use strict;
use warnings;
use Net::SMTPS;
use MIME::Lite;
use MIME::Base64 qw( encode_base64 );

my $to       = 'email@example.com';
my $from     = 'email@hotmail.com';
my $subject  = 'Sample Subject';
my $file     = 'C:\temp\sample.jpg';

my $username = 'MyEmail@hotmail.com';
my $password = 'MyPassword';  # Warning: Do NOT leave plain text passw
+ord in your code!

my $smtp = Net::SMTPS->new('outlook.com', Port => 587,  doSSL => 'star
+ttls', SSL_version=>'TLSv1');
$smtp->auth ( $username, $password ) or die "Could not authenticate wi
+th Outlook.\n";

######################################################################
# Email - header.
######################################################################
my $boundary = 'frontier';
$smtp->mail($from);
$smtp->recipient($to, { SkipBad => 1 });
$smtp->data();
$smtp->datasend("To: $to\n");
$smtp->datasend("From: $from\n");
$smtp->datasend("Subject: $subject\n");
$smtp->datasend("MIME-Version: 1.0\n");
$smtp->datasend("Content-type: multipart/mixed;\n\tboundary=\"$boundar
+y\"\n");
$smtp->datasend("\n");

######################################################################
# Email - text plus image embedded in email body.
######################################################################
$smtp->datasend("--$boundary\n");
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
     Type =>'multipart/related'
);
$msg->attach(
    Type => 'text/html',
    Data => qq{
        <body>
            <b>Email text (bold)</b>
            <br>Email text (normal)
            <p>
            <img src="cid:mypicture">
        </body>
    },
);
$msg->attach(
    Type => 'image/jpeg',
    Id   => 'mypicture',
    Path => $file,
);
$smtp->datasend( $msg->as_string );

######################################################################
# Email - finish.
######################################################################
$smtp->datasend("\n");
$smtp->datasend("--$boundary--\n");
$smtp->dataend();
$smtp->quit;

exit;

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In reply to Re: Sending Email On Windows by roho
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