Hi all,

I'm a new perl user. I'm trying to send a text file as an attachment through gmail. I tried MIME::Lite, Mail::Sender, Mail::Webmail::Gmail, and Net::SMTP::Server.

I can't connect to gmail at all using any of those, so I was wondering which one of those or which other packages I should use instead that would allow me to send a 100kb text file as an attachment?

I am not married to sending the email+attachment through gmail (although I prefer gmail), I just need an efficient/effective way to send an email w/ attachment, and I am overwhelmed by the millions of way it can be done in Perl. Any suggestions would be much appreciated.

I added the code from my various attempts below:

my $from = 'email@gmail.com';
my $to = 'email@email.com';
my $Subject = 'subj';
my $filepath = 'c:\programming';
my $txttype = 'text/plain';
my $filenm = 'txt.txt';
my $user = 'username'; #confused if I need to use my email address as 
+username or just username
my $passwd = 'pass';

#--------- NET::SMTP::SERVER ----------
my $smtp = Net::SMTP::Server->new(
                           Host => 'smtp.gmail.com',
                           Hello => 'smtp.gmail.com',
                           Timeout => 30,
                           Debug   => 1,
                           Auth => ($user, $passwd),
                           
                          );
$smtp->mail("email\@gmail.com");
$smtp->recipient("email\@gmail.com", \
     "email\@email.com");
$smtp->datasend("From: email\@gmail.com");
$smtp->datasend("To: email\@email.com");
$smtp->datasend("Subject: This is a test");
$smtp->datasend("\n");  
$smtp->datasend("blahblah");   
$smtp->dataend;
$smtp->quit;

# This resulted in an error that the program wsa unable to connect to 
+gmail

#------------ MAIL::WEBMAIL::GMAIL --------

my $gmail = Mail::Webmail::Gmail->new( username => $user, password => 
+$passwd );
$gmail->send_message( to => $to, subject => 'Test Message', msgbody =>
+ 'This is a test.' );

# This completed without error, but I never recieved an email

#------------ MAIL::SENDER -----------------

my $sender=Mail::Sender->new;
             if ($sender->MailMsg({
                 smtp    => 'smtp.gmail.com',
                 from    => 'email@gmail.com',
                 to      => 'email@email.com',
                 subject => 'test email',
                 msg     => 'testing email',
                 auth    => 'LOGIN',
                 authid  => $user,
                 authpwd => $passwd,
                 }) < 0) {
                       die "$Mail::Sender::Error\n";
             }
             print "Mail sent OK.";

# This was not able to connect either

#------------ MIME::LITE --------------------
my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(

    From        => $from,
    To          => $to,
    Subject     => $Subject,
    Data        => "Blah blah"
    #smtp        => 'smtp.gmail.com'
    );

$msg->attr("content-type"  => "multipart/mixed");

#for each attachment:
    $msg->attach(

        Type        => "text/plain",
        Path        => $filepath,
        Filename    => $filenm,
        Disposition => "attachment"

    );
    
MIME::Lite->send('smtp','smtp.gmail.com', Port => '465',Debug => '1', 
+Hello => 'gmail.com' , User=>$user, Password =>$passwd, Timeout => 60
+);
$msg->send();

# This resulted in not being able to connect to gmail either
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I tried to connect a few different ways and was unable to send the email. I am working on a Windows 7 PC, ActivePerl. I am just trying to send the email, not really vested in sending it through gmail. I tried variations on my username (email address, v username) and I changed the port to 587 and 25.

I am not confident in the quality of my code since I am new to this, so if anyone has a better way to send it that would be great.

As an aside, do I need to configure something on my machine for it to send emails? Is there some default email sending setting?

Thanks!

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