You can install XMail on windows:

http://www.xmailserver.org/

It is a free smtp server. Then just use either Net::SMTP or Mail::Sendmail to connect to it.

however I am using ActivPerl and I dont know how I can install these yet.

Installing the smtp server on windows isn't really a perl issue. After you have the smtp server running on windows, try to connect to it via perl. If you get stuck at that point, ask again.

hth

In reply to Re: How to send email on my local computer only - when I dont have access to an SMTP server? by zod
in thread How to send email on my local computer only - when I dont have access to an SMTP server? by rasolomon

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