Hi Monks, I'm trying to send a simple email (hello world text) from my gmail account. Searching cpan I found the module Email::Send::Gmail. After installing it successfully, I'm running the synopsis-like snippet to test it: 
  #!/usr/bin/perl
  use strict;
  use warnings;
  use Email::Send;
  use Email::Send::Gmail;
  use Email::Simple::Creator;

  my $email = Email::Simple->create(
      header => [
          From    => 'magic_monitoring@gmail.com',
          To      => 'acme@astray.com',
          Subject => 'Server down',
      ],
      body => 'The server is down. Start panicing.',
  );

  my $sender = Email::Send->new(
      {   mailer      => 'Gmail',
          mailer_args => [
              username => 'magic_monitoring@gmail.com',
              password => 'XXX',
          ]
      }
  );
  eval { $sender->send($email) };
  die "Error sending email: $@" if $@;

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Replacing the gmail accounts and the password with valid ones. The context of execution is: Ubuntu 8.04 (uname -a: Linux 2.6.24-21-generic #1 SMP Mon Aug 25 17:32:09 UTC 2008 i686 GNU/Linux) perl -v -> v5.8.8 perl -MEmail::Send::Gmail -e 'print $Email::Send::Gmail::VERSION' -> 0.33 telnet smtp.gmail.com 995 -> Trying 216.239.59.109... Connected to gmail-smtp-msa.l.google.com. Escape character is '^]' Output of running the script: Error sending email: Email::Send::Gmail: error authenticating username myaccount@gmail.com at /usr/local/share/perl/5.8.8/Email/Send.pm line 243 Anyone have any idea what's going on here? (the script worked on a leopard plataform) Thanks in advance!

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