Windows 2000 PRO can't send email using Mail-Sender

mineiro has asked for the wisdom of the Perl Monks concerning the following question:

I have installed PERL 561 with the following packages:

- DBD-ODBC
- DBI
- Mail-Sender
This installation was performed in two machines:

A - Windows 2000 Server
B - Windows 2000 Pro
I have a PERL program that makes a connection with the SMTP called SVRSMTP and sends an email to a user called USU1.
The program was executed in the machine A and the email is successfully sent
The program was executed in the machine B and it is not able to send the email. The following message is sent by the variable $Mail::Sender::Error
- connect() failed
Can anyone send me a suggestion of is happenning?
Thank you very much!

    use Mail::Sender;
    $To        = $ARGV[0]; # Here is passed a valid email-address
    $From        = $ARGV[1]; # Here is passed a valid email-address
    $Server    = $ARGV[2]; # Here is passed a server ip address that d
+oesnt need login authentification
    $Subject    = $ARGV[3]; # Passed a string "subject test"
    $Body        = $ARGV[4]; # Passed a string "body test"
    $Attach    = $ARGV[5]; # Here receive a c:\temp\testatt.txt and th
+is file exists
    $Cc    = "";

    $sender = new Mail::Sender {
        smtp => $Server, 
        from => $From};
    $sender->MailFile({
        to => $To,
        subject => $Subject,
        msg => $Body,
        file => $Attach});

    $sender->Close;
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Re: Windows 2000 PRO can't send email using Mail-Sender by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 01, 2005 at 21:38 UTC
... not without more information. what does the program look like? Please post the script, INSIDE <code>...</code> tags as an UPDATE to your original query... ( see Writeup Formatting Tips ) ... and then you're apt to receive some monkly wisdom!	[reply]
Re^2: Windows 2000 PRO can't send email using Mail-Sender by mineiro (Novice) on Apr 04, 2005 at 13:16 UTC
Done!	[reply]
Re^3: Windows 2000 PRO can't send email using Mail-Sender by ww (Archbishop) on Apr 07, 2005 at 17:40 UTC
nice cleanup (for which, thanks) but I'm still having a hard time getting a grip on your question. Please clarify "The program was executed in the machine B and it is not able to send the email.". Do you mean that you are trying to execute the same script on both Machine A and Machine B to send to a third machine (where USU1 exists)? or that "B" fails to execute Mail::Sender to reply to A or ??? or (perhaps an issue) are you sure the w2k Pro machine (B) has smtp server. I suspect that's stock in the w2k Server machine, but suspect it is not installed on w2k Pro. M$ didn't distinguish the two solely to bump up its product count - ie, is there an SMTP server on B? If you're trying to have "B" talk to "A" when you get the error, do you have an IP issue? Documentation says `smtp => the IP or domain address of your SMTP (mail) server This is the name of your LOCAL mail server, do NOT try to contact +directly the adressee's mailserver! That would be slow and buggy, you +r script should only pass the messages to the nearest mail server and + leave the rest to it. ...` [download] I'm not even sure I'm asking you for the right info, but since I see no other attempts to respond, I suspect others are having difficulty parsing your problem, too. UPDATE: bang-one, in CB, suggests: "...have him confirm that he can connect to the other server. A simple "telnet ip 25" should tell him whether or not it's a factor outside of the code. <!1> Which I suspect it is, considering the script works on another machine.	[reply] [d/l]