I'm using Cygwin's perl, 5.1.0. I'm trying to send email through gmail with perl. The module that I'm trying to use is Email::Send::Gmail. When I type cpan -i Email::Send::Gmail at my cygwin prompt, it looks like it installs, this is what I get: 
$cpan -i Email::Send::Gmail
CPAN: File::HomeDir loaded ok (v0.80)
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /home/Josh/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:26:55 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.66)
Going to read /home/Josh/.cpan/build/
......................................................................
+......DONE
Found 52 old builds, restored the state of 52
Running install for module 'Email::Send::Gmail'
Running make for L/LB/LBROCARD/Email-Send-Gmail-0.33.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/Josh/.cpan/build/Ema
+il-Send-Gm                                                           
+                                                          ail-0.33-tu
+JNXE
  Has already been made
Running make test
/usr/bin/perl5.10.0.exe "-MExtUtils::Command::MM" "-e" "test_harness(0
+, 'blib/li                                                           
+                                                          b', 'blib/a
+rch')" t/*.t
t/pod......ok   
All tests successful.
Files=1, Tests=1,  1 wallclock secs ( 0.00 usr  0.00 sys +  0.22 cusr 
+ 0.06 csys                                                           
+                                                           =  0.28 CP
+U)
Result: PASS
  LBROCARD/Email-Send-Gmail-0.33.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make test -- OK
Running make install
Prepending /home/Josh/.cpan/build/Email-Send-Gmail-0.33-tuJNXE/blib/ar
+ch /home/J                                                           
+                                                          osh/.cpan/b
+uild/Email-Send-Gmail-0.33-tuJNXE/blib/lib to PERL5LIB for 'install'
Installing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/Email/Send/Gmail.pm
Writing /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-cygwin/auto/Email/Send/Gmai
+l/.packlis
Appending installation info to /usr/lib/perl5/5.10/i686-cygwin/perlloc
+al.pod
  LBROCARD/Email-Send-Gmail-0.33.tar.gz
  /usr/bin/make install  -- OK

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I then try to run this simple example code: 
#!/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    => 'me@gmail.com',
        To      => 'me@gmail.com',
        Subject => 'Works!!',
    ],
    body => 'w00t',
);

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

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But I get this error: 
$ ./gmailpop.pl                               
Can't locate Email/Send.pm in @INC (@INC contains: /usr/lib/perl5/5.10
+/i686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10/i686-c
+ygwin /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10/i
+686-cygwin /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl
+/5.10 /usr/lib/perl5/site_perl/5.8 /usr/lib/perl5/vendor_perl/5.8 .) 
+at ./gmailpop.pl line 5.
BEGIN failed--compilation aborted at ./gmailpop.pl line 5.

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So (perhaps naively) I attempted $ cpan -i Email::Send to which I got 
$ cpan -i Email::Send                                                 
+                                                                     
+                                                          CPAN: File:
+:HomeDir loaded ok (v0.80)
CPAN: Storable loaded ok (v2.18)
Going to read /home/Josh/.cpan/Metadata
  Database was generated on Sat, 15 Nov 2008 23:26:55 GMT
CPAN: YAML loaded ok (v0.66)
Going to read /home/Josh/.cpan/build/
......................................................................
+......DONE
Found 52 old builds, restored the state of 52
Running install for module 'Email::Send'
Running make for R/RJ/RJBS/Email-Send-2.192.tar.gz
  Has already been unwrapped into directory /home/Josh/.cpan/build/Ema
+il-Send-2.192-d4Pxon
  Has already been made
Running make test
  Has already been tested successfully
Running make install
  Already done

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At which point I run out of ideas. Can someone please help me with this? I'm trying to write a very simple script for the holidays, and this is driving me nuts. Thanks!

It should be noted that I don't care what method I used to send emails through gmail, so if there's an alternative to Email::Send::Gmail that might work, by all means suggest it.

In reply to Email::Send::Gmail with Cygwin by JDylan

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