SASL connection library missing

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

Hi Monks. I'm back with another question. Maybe more like a repeat of a previous one.

I'm getting a message back from a Windows server when trying to run a script to send an email, which needs to authenticate before sending. I get the message: Cannot find a SASL Connection library at PERL2EXE_STORAGE/Net/SMTP.pm line 137 I had a previous post about ScanDeps to find dependencies. I got ScanDeps running (thanks to all who posted, I used the scandeps.pl script). It didn't show anything interesting that might be missing (I assume). The modules shown to be needed were:

'File::Spec'                     => '3.30',
'File::Spec::Win32'              => '3.30',
'File::Spec::Unix'               => '3.30',
'Cwd'                            => '3.30',
'CGI::Carp'                      => '3.45',
'Authen::SASL::EXTERNAL'         => '0.99',
'Authen::SASL'                   => '2.12',
'Authen::SASL::Perl'             => '1.07',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::ANONYMOUS'  => '1.03',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::CRAM_MD5'   => '1.03',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::DIGEST_MD5' => '1.07',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::EXTERNAL'   => '1.03',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::GSSAPI'     => '0.04',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::LOGIN'      => '1.03',
'Authen::SASL::Perl::PLAIN'      => '1.04',
'Authen::SASL::CRAM_MD5'         => '0.99',
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Here's the code. Note that I am using Perl2Exe to package it into an executable for Windows to run. With those dependencies listed about, what am I missing that would give the connection library error .... or better yet, what is it really referring to when it refers to a 'connection library'? Thanks a lot. I need to get this sorted out for a project I am working on.

#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
#perl2exe_noopt "Opcode.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "Apache2/RequestRec.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "Apache2/RequestIO.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "Apache2/RequestUtil.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "APR/Pool.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "ModPerl/Util.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "Apache2/Response.pm"

#Net::SMTP related:
#perl2exe_exclude "Convert/EBCDIC.pm"
#perl2exe_exclude "Mac/InternetConfig.pm"
#perl2exe_include "Authen/SASL.pm"

use CGI::Carp qw(fatalsToBrowser);

&MakeRequest;                      

exit;

############################################
sub MakeRequest {

  print "Content-type: text/html;charset=UTF-8\n\n";
  print <<NCP;
<html>
  <head>
    <title>Library Search</title>
</head><body>
NCP
  use Net::SMTP;
  use Authen::SASL;
  
  my $SMTPServer = 'myserver.net';
  my $emailFrom = 'me@here.com';
  my $emailTo = 'you@there.com';
  my $user = 'username';
  my $pass = 'password';
      
  my $NetSMTP = Net::SMTP->new($SMTPServer, Port=>'587', Timeout=>60, 
+Debug=>1) || die "<br>Unable to open connection.<br>Error Message: $!
+";
    
  $NetSMTP->auth( user => $user, 
                  pass => $pass,
                ) || die "<br>Auth didn't work: $!<br>";
  
  print "<br>sending from [$emailFrom] to [$emailTo]";
  $NetSMTP->mail($emailFrom);
  $NetSMTP->to($emailTo);
  $NetSMTP->data();
  $NetSMTP->datasend('this is the body text');
  $NetSMTP->dataend();
  $NetSMTP->quit;
  print "<br>Done.";
}
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Re: SASL connection library missing - help? by marto (Cardinal) on Jul 19, 2012 at 18:58 UTC
So similar to Authen::SASL error? Are you packaging the required plugins Authen::SASL::*? Personally I'd use pp (running it with the `-x` option) over Perl2exe any day.	[reply] [d/l]