You don't need to be an admin to install your own perl modules, as long as there is no C portion that needs to be built. Start by creating a new directory in your home directory, say it is called mylib.

Now, download and untar/zip the distribution files from CPAN. In the lib directory of the directory created when you unpack the distribution, you will find another directory named Mail. Copy this directory to the mylib directory you created earlier. At the top of your perl script, insert the line use lib "path/to/mylib". You can use this same method to install any perl module you need, as long as it doesn't include any C code.

One last note. You already have a Mail directory in your personal library. If you install another module in the Mail family, you just need to copy the .pm file and any provided subdirectories into the existing Mail directory.

More experienced monks - please feel free to add/clarify anything I may have missed.

HTH
digger

In reply to Re^3: Sending Mail on a Windows Machine by digger
in thread Sending Mail on a Windows Machine by jpk236

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