I don't see it on CPAN yet, but gave a quick look at the package from the link above. Quickly, I see you have use strict commented out.. why? You later have no strict 'refs'. Also, please do not put anything on the CPAN which has your email address as a default value. You should not make people set (or unset) default values within the module, ie:

my $def_smtp         = "your.smtp.com";    #<--IMPORTANT!  Set this!
my $def_email         = 'thomasoniii@yahoo.com';
my $def_return        = 'thomasoniii@yahoo.com';
my $def_subject     = "Ye Gods!  An error!";
my $def_domain        = "smtp.com";        #<--IMPORTANT!  Set this! I
+ mean it!
my $def_log_file     = "error.log";

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These things should be done ONLY by passing a hash (I would use a hash) when use'ing the module (or in a new() method, which you don't need to have), or with methods (like Carp::Notify::set_smtp('smtp.me.com'), or Carp::Notify::set_defaults({smtp => 'me.smtp.com', email => 'foo@me.com'}), etc...).
Please change this. 
my $paddr = sockaddr_in(25, $remote_address);

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How do you know it is 25? 
sub today {
...
}

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I like POSIX for things like this, some don't. 
sub error { undef};

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I would have finished this sub before putting on CPAN, personally. You could $Carp::Notify::errlog = 'file' or STDERR (etc...), if Win32 you could log to the Event Log, or make error() a callback to a user defined sub to handle the errors as they wish.

Just some comments from a quick review.

Cheers,
KM

In reply to RE: RE: new module idea by KM
in thread new module idea by jimt

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