In addition to the good suggestions everyone else gave you, it's also entirely likely that this problem has nothing to do with the fact that you are running it on windows, and everything to do with the location of the windows server you are running it on. It is very common for ISPs to block all outgoing smtp traffic and force you to use their outgoing mail server (so you can't send spam from your house). Try opening up a command line and using telnet to connect to the hostname and port you are trying this on, it could very well be that no application is going to work on the hostname and port you are trying to connect to (but since you don't say what those are, it's tough to guess).

We're not surrounded, we're in a target-rich environment!

In reply to Re: Network Programming With Perl example 1 by jasonk
in thread Network Programming With Perl example 1 by Anonymous Monk

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