In the past I could send emails using sendEmail.pl. I recently was forced to upgrade to Windows 10, and I changed to Strawberry instead of ActivePerl. Meanwhile I think Gmail disabled SSL. The result is I can't get email working. My latest attempt was this for a start: 

use strict;
use warnings;
use Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail;
my ($mail,$error)=Email::Send::SMTP::Gmail->new
(
    -smtp=>'smtp.gmail.com',
    -login=>'MYGMAILNAME@gmail.com',
    -pass=>'MYPASSWORD',
    -port=>587,
    -layer=> 'tls',
    -verbose=>1,
    -debug=>1
);

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The result is 19 good messages followed by 2 bad messages. Starting at message 18, here's what I see: 

Net::SMTPS=GLOB(0x2c8b140>>>> STARTTLS
Net::SMTPS=GLOB(0x2c8b140>>>> 220 2.0.0 Ready to start TLS
DEBUG: .../IO/Socket/SSL.pm:525 global error: SSL Version SSLv2 not su
+pported
Could not connect to SMTP server

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Why is it still referring to SSL and how did port 525 get there? Please give me a simple solution, as I'm 75 years old and running out of time. Thanks.

In reply to Problem sending Gmail from Widows 10 by haprst

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