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)