I use Mail::Sendmail, here is some code that use and reuse. Be usre to set your mail server in sendmail.pm tho, here is a snipped of code that will send HTML email.
use Mail::Sendmail; 

%mail = (
    from => 'me@domain.com',
    to => 'you@domain.com',
    subject => 'Test HTML mail',
    'content-type' => 'text/html; charset="iso-8859-1"',
        );
$mail{body} = <<END_OF_BODY;
<html>
<head>
<style> body {font-family: Verdana; size: 10px; color:black;}
</style>
</head>
<body>
Here is the contents of your email, use html as you wish ...... have f
+un!

</body>
</html>
END_OF_BODY

sendmail(%mail) || print "Error: $Mail::Sendmail::error\n";

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  - Silent11

In reply to Re: How do I send e-mail from my Perl Program? by silent11
in thread How do I send e-mail from my Perl Program? by vroom

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