I have used Mail::Sendmail for a long time now to handle emailing of sorts. Ultra simple:

use Mail::Sendmail;

my %message = (To      => "some address",
               From    => "your address",
               Subject => "subject",
               Message => "text");

sendmail(%message) or die $Mail::Sendmail::error;
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That's it. Set up your smtp server(s) in Sendmail.pm in %mailcfg at the top.