Thank you for your continued attention. I can type again and give better reports of what is or is not happening. I think my values of lexical variables going into it are correct. Again, I use ellipses for values I'd rather not splash all over the net. Output:

page is 7ae191.html
host is smtp.1and1.com
phone is ...@txt.att.net
username is ...
password is ...
*******************************************************************
 Using the default of SSL_verify_mode of SSL_VERIFY_NONE for client
 is deprecated! Please set SSL_verify_mode to SSL_VERIFY_PEER
 together with SSL_ca_file|SSL_ca_path for verification.
 If you really don't want to verify the certificate and keep the
 connection open to Man-In-The-Middle attacks please set
 SSL_verify_mode explicitly to SSL_VERIFY_NONE in your application.
*******************************************************************
  at C:/Perl/site/lib/Net/SMTP/TLS.pm line 181.
invalid SSL_version specified at C:/Perl/lib/IO/Socket/SSL.pm line 389
+.

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Current script

#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
use 5.010;
use lib "template_stuff";
use html3;

sub rndStr{ join'', @_[ map{ rand @_ } 1 .. shift ] }
my $new_name = rndStr( 5, 'a'..'z', 1..9);
my $ref_to_name = \$new_name;
my $return_page = create_page($ref_to_name);
say "page is $return_page";
email_link($return_page);
sub email_link{
use strict;
use 5.014;
use Net::SMTP;
use config2;

my $link = shift;
my $sub_hash = "my_ftp";
my $host = $config{$sub_hash}->{'smtp'};
say "host is $host";
my $phone = $config{$sub_hash}->{'phone'};
say "phone is $phone";
my $username = $config{$sub_hash}->{'username'};
say "username is $username";
my $password = $config{$sub_hash}->{'password'};
say "password is $password";

if (1) {
 use Net::SMTP::TLS;
 my $mailer = new Net::SMTP::TLS(
        $host,
        #Hello   =>      'some.host.name',
        Port    =>      587, #redundant
        User    =>      $username,
        Password=>      $password)
 or die "Unable to connect to '$host'. $@";
 $mailer->mail("myself");
 $mailer->to($phone);
 $mailer->data;
 $mailer->datasend($link);
 $mailer->dataend;
 $mailer->quit;

 }
  else {
   say '$ENV{USER} does not exists or is not defined.';
  }
}
__END__

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So again, I'm wondering how I seem to be making hard what everyone else thinks is super easy....

In reply to Re^4: instantiating an smtp object by Aldebaran
in thread instantiating an smtp object by Aldebaran

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