Thank you for the suggestion. I'd thought of that and tried the following: 
use strict;
use warnings;
use Email::Send;
use Email::Send::Gmail;
use MIME::Lite;

my $msg = MIME::Lite->new(
 From     =>'bob@gmail.com',
 To       =>'bob@gmail.com',
 Subject  =>'test'
);

my $sender = Email::Send->new(
 { mailer      => 'Gmail',
   mailer_args=>[ username=>'bob@gmail.com',password=>'123456',]   
 }
);
eval { $sender->send($msg) };
die "Error sending email: $@" if $@;

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I receive no error, but the code immediately returns to a prompt and no mail is sent. I am somewhat new to this and assume you suggested I patch the "send" part (which works with Email::Simple::Creator) to my existing MIME code. Correct? Thoughts?

In reply to Re^2: Bad file descriptor with mail to Gmail using MIME::Lite. by rhubarbpie
in thread Bad file descriptor with mail to Gmail using MIME::Lite. by rhubarbpie

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