Oh Mighty monks, I have a bit of a question, that in my googling I have not come up with a sure fire answer (yes this is a some what admission that I have not tested and failed enough, but I hope that is ok). Essentially I am running on Windows Vista (please limit the scoffing) ActiveState Perl 5.10, I have a script that is launched by Windows Task Scheduler, where it collects information of the internet, puts into a MySQL (natch) database on my computer if there is new information. I would like to have my code send me an email if the database is updated. Here is what I am looking for: 1) I would like to only use modules that go through the PPM that ActiveState has (maybe I am being stupid, please let me know if that is a dumb requirement) 2) I don't want to pay for the email service. The reason that I ask, is that if I look for SMTP modules on ActiveState PPM there are options, but to use Gmail it looks like I need SSL option which is not in ActiveState. So is there something that I am missing, i.e. I don't need SSL, or perhaps Yahoo, MSN or some other free email service that will work with what is in ActiveState just to send an email? Thanks in advance for the knowledge!

In reply to Sending email from a Vista machine with ActiveState PPM modules by Anonymous Monk

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