Presuming I am reading your question correctly all you want to do is send mail to your address yourmail@somewhere.com. It does not matter what this address is all you need is a module that sends email.Mail::Mailer and Net::SMTP and MIME::Lite can all do this. See How do I send e-mail from my Perl Program? from the Q&A.

Did you read the Windows readme for Mail::WebMail::Gmail? It shows 5 steps for installing it on Windows.

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So I tired following the directions, I got down to the install of the Gmail package and I get this error:

Checking if your kit is complete...

Looks good

Writing Makefile for Mail::Webmail::Gmail

'nmake' is not recognized as an internal or external command, operable program or batch file.

MINCUS/Mail-Webmail-Gmail-1.09.tar.gz

nmake -- NOT OK

Warning (usually harmless): 'YAML' not installed, will not store persistent state

Running make test

Can't test without successful make

Running make install

Make had returned bad status, install seems impossible

I tried running this from the directory that I installed/ran the nmake from the link...

Any help?

With the Mail::WebMail::Gmail from a non-ActiveState PPM, how do I install this (with all the various dependencies) on a Windows machine

You first add the necessary repositories to your ppm repository list. The 3 reps listed at randyk's webpage will probably suffice. Looking at ppm help, I think this means that you run the following three commands:

ppm repo add http://www.bribes.org/perl/ppm 
ppm repo add http://trouchelle.com/ppm10/
ppm repo add http://cpan.uwinnipeg.ca/PPMPackages/10xx/
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That done, it should then just be a matter of running:

ppm install Mail-WebMail-Gmail
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Cheers,
Rob

Thank you for your advice! But I have an error, I am running this code (from the authors site)

use strict;
use Crypt::SSLeay;
use HTTP::Cookies;
use HTTP::Headers;
use HTTP::Request::Common;
use LWP::UserAgent;
use Mail::Webmail::Gmail;

my ( $gmail ) = Mail::Webmail::Gmail->new(username => 'secret', passwo
+rd => 'also_secret' );

### Test Sending Message ####
my $msgid = $gmail->send_message( to => 'blah@yahoo.com', subject => t
+ime(), msgbody => 'Test' ); print "Msgid: $msgid\n";
if ( $msgid ) {
    if ( $gmail->error() ) {
        print $gmail->error_msg();
    } else {
        ### Create new label ###
        my $test_label = "tl_" . time();
        $gmail->edit_labels( label => $test_label, action => 'create' 
+);
        if ( $gmail->error() ) {
            print $gmail->error_msg();
        } else {
            ### Add this label to our new message ###
            $gmail->edit_labels( label => $test_label, action => 'add'
+, 'msgid' => $msgid );
            if ( $gmail->error() ) {
                print $gmail->error_msg();
            } else {
                print "Added label: $test_label to message $msgid\n";
            }
        }
    }
}
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I then get the following error:

Use of uninitialized value $host in concatenation (.) or string at C:/
+Perl/lib/LWP/Protocol/http.pm line 25.
Use of uninitialized value $page in pattern match (m//) at C:/Perl/sit
+e/lib/Mail/Webmail/Gmail.pm line 1425.
Msgid: 
Use of uninitialized value $msgid in concatenation (.) or string at E:
+\Bioreka\gmail\test.pl line 12.
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I found this here: http://rt.cpan.org/Public/Bug/Display.html?id=21094

I did this:

https://www.google.com/accounts/UnlockCaptcha?

And no luck.... any thoughts?

I have learned by playing that sendmail works if you have your own sendmail server, which I don't... I have a gmail and yahoo.. willing to use anything, just to try and get this running....

Hi All, I am posting this reply for people who may be reading this thread if they have the same questions. I finally got this to work, but not for free. Essentially I signed up for Yahoo Mail Plus (20 bucks a year), which allowed me to access their SMTP server (smtp.mail.yahoo.com) and used Mail::SendEasy (downloadable from ActiveState PPM 5.10). Here are the settings that I used

  use Mail::SendEasy ;

  my $mail = new Mail::SendEasy(
  smtp => 'smtp.mail.yahoo.com' ,
  user => 'yahoo_id' , #no @yahoo.com
  pass => 'yahoo_password' ,
  ) ;
  
  my $status = $mail->send(
  from    => 'yahoo_id@yahoo.com' ,
  from_title => 'Whatever' ,
  reply   => 'yahoo_id@yahoo.com' ,
  error   => 'yahoo_id@yahoo.com' ,
  to      => 'where_ever' ,
  cc      => 'where_ever_2' ,
  subject => "MAIL Test" ,
  msg     => "The Plain Msg..." ,
  html    => "<b>The HTML Msg...</b>" ,
  msgid   => "0101" ,
  ) ;
  
  if (!$status) { print $mail->error ;}
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Also for what it is worth, this exact method did not work for Gmail (I never could get any code up and running to use GMail)